Is the most recent update here really from 18 months ago?!
Perhaps blogs are a dying venue, or perhaps I’ve just been too busy and stretched thin to keep this updated. You be the judge.
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A few big happenings over the past year and a half include:
- Being granted “continuing faculty status” (BYU’s version of tenure) and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of History and position of Associate Director of the Redd Center
- Being awarded the 3-year “Marjorie Pay Hinckley Young Scholar Award” from BYU FHSS college
- Publishing Essays on American Indian and Mormon History (University of Utah Press, 2019), co-edited with P. Jane Hafen
- Winning the 2020 Metcalfe Best Anthology Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association
- Giving book talks about Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands at:
- University of California – Santa Barbara
- Weber State University
- Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
- La Maison de L’International de Grenoble, France
- Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglofine: Représentations, Culture, Histoire (SEARCH) at Université de Strasbourg, France
- John F. Kennedy Institute, Borders Research Unit of the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence, and Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Pascua Yaqui Tribe Department of Education, Guadalupe, AZ
- Northern Arizona University
- Dixie State University and Utah Humanities Book Festival, St. George, UT
- Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A&M University
- Eastern New Mexico State University
- Presenting at conferences in France, Las Vegas, New York City, and one online
- Editing & publishing over 300 stories on the Intermountain Histories digital public history project website and mobile app
- Continuing hosting and producing the monthly Writing Westward podcast – now up to 26 episodes!
- Staying alive and healthy during a pandemic