ISABEL MOREIRA portrait
  • Professor, History
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Professional Service

  • American Historical Association. Role: Prize Committee Member. Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for European History. 2018 - 2019
  • Role: Evaluator. Entity: National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowships. 2016 - 2016
  • American Council of Learned Societies. Role: Member Of Selection Committee. selection committee. 2014 - 2016
  • Role: Member. Entity: USHE History Tuning. 2011 - 2016
  • Role: Manuscript Reviewer. Entity: Studies in Late Antiquity. Reviewed article manuscript. 2021 - 2021
  • Role: Reviewer. Entity: Early Medieval Europe Review article manuscript for publication. 2020 - 2020
  • American Historical Association. Role: Chair. Prize committee for the Herbert Baxter Prize in European History. This was a 3 year appointment. 2018 - 2021

Internal Service

  • RPT Chair. Chair, 2021 - 2022. service.
  • TFR Committee. Chair, 2020 - 2021. service.
  • Member of search committee. Member., 2019 - 2020. service.
  • College of Humanities Tenure and Promotion Committee. Member, 2018 - 2019. service.
  • Role: Recording Secretary History Department RPT. 2018 - 2018. service.
  • Role: Representative, substitute for elected representative. Senate. 2018 - 2018. service.
  • Graduate Council Review, Department of Political Science. Internal Reviewer, 2015 - 2015. service.
  • University Scheduling Committee (S4). Member, 2015 - 2016. service.
  • Senate Committee on Salaries and Benefits. Member, 2014 - 2017. service.
  • Days of Remembrance. Committee Member, 2013 - present. service.
  • "Practicing History" Conference involving faculty, graduates and undergraduates. 2012 - present. service.
  • Department Chair. 2011 - 2016. service.
  • Chair of History Department. Department Chair, 2011 - 2014. service.
  • RPT. Chair, 2010 - 2011. service.
  • Rocky Mountain European Studies Consortium. Member, 2010 - present. service.
  • Library Committee. Member, 2010 - 2011. service.
  • Religious Studies Program. Member, 2009 - present. service.
  • Undergraduate Committee. Member, 2008 - 2011. service.
  • Strategic Planning Committee. Member, 2007 - present. service.

Honors & Awards

  • James L.Clayton Research Professor, 2020-2022. University of Utah Department of History,. 2021
  • James L.Clayton Research Professor, 2020-2022. University of Utah Department of History, 2020
  • Faculty Scholarly Grant Program. University of Utah, URC, 2020
  • Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities Award. College of Humanities, University of Utah, 2019
  • Research Sabbatical. University of Utah, 2019
  • Summer Stipend. National Endowment for the Humanities, 2019
  • Professor of the Year Award. Phi Alpha Theta, 2011
  • Distinguished Professor Award. Phi Alpha Theta, 2011
  • Sabbatical Research Leave. College of Humanities. University of Utah., 2009
  • Faculty Fellow Award. University Research Committee, 2008

Affiliations

  • American Historical Association (AHA), member, 01/2019 - 01/2020
  • Medieval Academy of America , Member, 01/2019 - 01/2020
  • North American Patristics Society (NAPS), member, 07/01/2017 - 06/30/2018
  • Medieval Academy of the Pacific (MAP), member, 07/01/2017 - 06/30/2018

In the Media

  • Moreira and Toscano interview, KUER Radio West (Doug Fabrizio) "Oh Hell." . 2014.
  • Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity (OUP, 2010)reviewed in New York Review of Books, December 2012: "The Risks of Being Christian" . 2012. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/dec/...