SHAWNAKIM BLAKE LOWEY-BALL portrait
  • Associate Professor, History
801-581-6121

Internal Service

  • University Retirement Plans Advisory Committee. 08/15/2023 - present. University service.
  • Council of Dee Fellows. 08/22/2022 - 05/15/2025. University service.
  • Senate Advisory Committee on Academic Policy. 08/15/2022 - 05/15/2025. University service.
  • Executive Committee. 08/15/2022 - 05/15/2023. Department service.
  • Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. 08/15/2022 - 05/15/2023. Department service.
  • FLAS Scholarship Committee. Member, 11/15/2021 - 04/15/2023. University service.
  • College of Humanities Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. 09/01/2021 - present. College service.
  • US and the World Search Committee. Member, 10/15/2020 - 03/15/2021. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. Member, 08/15/2020 - 05/15/2021. Department service.
  • University Research Committee. 09/2019 - 05/2023. University service.
  • Faculty Advisory Committee for the Asia Center. 12/01/2018 - 05/15/2022. College service.
  • Faculty Advisory Committee for International Studies. 08/15/2018 - present. College service.
  • General Education Curriculum Committee (GECC). Member, 07/01/2017 - 08/15/2020. University service.
  • FLAS Committee. 01/01/2016 - 05/15/2016. University service.
  • Departmental Roadmap Committee. 09/15/2015 - 06/15/2016. Department service.
  • Wilson Lecture Committee. 08/15/2015 - 06/15/2016. Department service.
  • Teaching Committee. 05/12/2015 - 06/15/2016. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. 05/12/2015 - 06/15/2016. Department service.
  • Graduate Committee. 01/01/2015 - 05/15/2015. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Historical background and preparation for guides and curators presenting the Angkor exhibition at the Utah Museum of Natural History. 09/01/2022 - 10/31/2022

Honors & Awards

  • Early Career Teaching Award Winner. University of Utah, 01/2022
  • Early Career Teaching Award Nominee. University of Utah, 01/2021
  • John Addison Porter Prize for "a work of scholarship in any field." This is Yale's top academic prize honoring the year's best dissertation in any subject. Yale University, 05/18/2015
  • Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for outstanding dissertation in the field of history outside the United States and Europe. Yale University, 05/18/2015

In the Media