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Associate Professor, History
Professional Service
- Western Historical Quarterly.
Role: Editorial Board Member.
Journal Publication.
01/2024 - present
- Oxford University Press.
Manuscript Referee.
02/2022 - present
- University of Arizona Press.
Role: Manuscript Referee.
Peer Review.
01/2024 - present
- Western Historical Quarterly.
Role: Manuscript Referee.
Service to the profession.
05/2017 - present
- Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Role: Manuscript Referee.
Service to the Profession.
02/2016 - present
- Committee on Race in the American West (CRAW).
Role: Advisory Committee .
Service to the Profession.
10/2015 - present
- Committee on Assault Response and Educational Strategies, Western History Association (WHA CARES).
Role: Member.
Service to the Profession.
10/2022 - present
- Coalition for Western Women's History (CWWH).
Role: Steering Committee Member.
Service to the Profession.
10/2014 - 11/2017
- Western History Association.
Role: Member.
Program Committee.
10/2021 - 02/2022
- Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders and Sexualities.
Role: Member.
Program Committee.
09/2021 - 12/2022
- National Science Foundation (NSF).
Role: Proposal Referee.
Service to the Profession.
10/2015 - 01/2016
Internal Service
- Nineteenth Century Latin American History Search Committee.
Chair,
09/2023 - 02/2024.
Department service.
- Selection Committee, Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the
Humanities (5-year term)
.
Member,
08/2023 - present.
College service.
- Intellectual Life Committee.
Member,
08/2023 - present.
Department service.
- Utah Presidential Leadership Fellowship.
Application Reviewer,
08/2023 - 08/2023.
University service.
- Graduate Council Review Ad Hoc Committee, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Member,
02/2022 - 04/2022.
University service.
- Faculty Awards Committee.
Member,
08/2021 - 08/2022.
College service.
- African American History Search Committee.
Member,
02/2021 - 12/2021.
Department service.
- Graduate Studies Committee.
Member,
08/2020 - 05/2021.
Department service.
- Undergraduate Council.
Member,
09/2019 - 05/2022.
University service.
- Intellectual Life Committee.
Member,
09/2019 - 04/2020.
Department service.
- Nineteenth Century American History Search Committee.
Member,
09/2019 - 02/2020.
Department service.
- College of Humanities Dean Search Committee.
Member,
09/2017 - 03/2018.
College service.
- Humanities Scholars Faculty.
08/2017 - 05/2020.
College service.
- Graduate Studies Committee.
Member,
08/2016 - 07/2017.
Department service.
- Public History Planning Committee.
Member,
02/2016 - 04/2017.
Department service.
- African American History Search Committee.
Member,
09/2015 - 02/2016.
Department service.
- Wilson Lecture Committee.
Member,
08/2014 - 05/2015.
Department service.
- Diversity Committee.
Member,
08/2014 - 05/2015.
College service.
- Executive Committee.
Member,
08/2014 - 05/2015.
Department service.
- Undergraduate Committee.
Member,
08/2013 - 05/2015.
Department service.
- Teaching Committee.
Member,
08/2013 - 08/2014.
Department service.
Honors & Awards
- 2023 Robert G. Athearn Award for best book on the twentieth-century American West.
Western Historical Quarterly,
10/2023
- Honorable Mention, 2023 James A. Rawley Prize for best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States.
Organization of American Historians,
03/2023
- Finalist, 2023 Outstanding Book Award.
History of Education Society,
11/2023
- Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.
College of Humanities, University of Utah,
03/2023
- Presidential Leadership Fellowship.
University of Utah,
09/2021
- Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in General Education.
University of Utah,
04/2021
- TRIO Achiever Award.
ASPIRE, Inc. (Region 7, TRIO Programs, U.S. Department of Education),
10/2017
- Rising Star in the Humanities Award.
College of Humanities, University of Utah,
08/2017
- National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship.
12/2016
- University Research Council Faculty Fellow .
University of Utah,
12/2016
- Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowship.
Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah,
11/2016
- John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Research Award.
Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University,
05/2014
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