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 . 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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