The American West Center was founded in 1964 with the mission of researching the history and culture of the American West. Today, the Center has completed thousands of oral histories, created document archives, and developed regional curriculum.
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Greg Smoak, associate professor of history and director of the American West Center, discusses the origins of Thanksgiving and how the holiday has changed since the initial feast in 1621 on Humanities Radio.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-origins-of-thanksgiving/id1489998929?i=1000497826480
Show Humanities Radio, Ep The Origins Of Thanksgiving - Nov 9, 2020
Center director Greg Smoak and his history department colleague Professor Nadja Durbach explain why pandemics are never simply biological events.
https://humanities.utah.edu/perspectives/2020/how-historical-inequities-shape-the-course-of-pandemics.php
We can never view pandemics as purely biological events. While it is true that microbes are discrete organisms, replicating and mutating through natural processes beyond our control, human actions and power structures have always shaped the epidemics those pathogens have spawned. This is as true tod...
The rise of ‘Zoom Towns’ in the rural west | @theU
COVID-19 has accelerated a trend of rapid growth in western gateway communities. This
Check out this podcast where Director Dr. Greg Smoak sits down to discuss water law in the west, John Wesley Powell, and the historical context of water management and use. Part one of a three-part series on the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline.
http://www.themesaretreatcenter.com/podcast-archive/2020/9/2/is-the-water-wet
LISTEN NOW This episode is Part One of a three-part series on the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline. Historian Greg Smoak joins us to discuss water law in the west, John Wesley Powell, and provide an overall historical context for the pipeline. Greg Smoak is a Professor of History at the University
On May 6 check out AWC alum Amanda Fountain Scheuerman’s virtual brown bag talk, brought to you by the Utah Public Archaeology Network
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jarvie-ranch-curriculum-project-tickets-99688268294
***Join us on Zoom! https://zoom.us/j/594094032*** In celebration of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month, the Utah State Historic Preservation Office is excited to host a series of brown bag lectures. Join us on May 6 as we welcome Amanda Fountain-Scheuerman, Joel Arviso-Zavala, and Kylee Eh...
Congratulations to our own Director Gregory E. Smoak and to former Director Matt Basso!
https://www.facebook.com/107569388513/posts/10159129687958514/?d=n
A HUGE round of applause for Matt Basso, recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award and Greg Smoak, recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Mentor Award!
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Today on #HumanitiesRadio: The American West Center was founded in 1964 with the mission of researching the history and culture of the American West. Greg Smoak, associate professor of history and director of the center, discusses more about the goals of the center, current and past research projects and student involvement. ⠀
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The American West Center featured in the latest installment of Humanities Radio!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-west-center/id1489998929?i=1000464594369
Show Humanities Radio, Ep American West Center - Feb 4, 2020
@WHAtweets (The World History Association) is having their 2020 conference in Salt Lake City in 2020 and their Call for Papers deadline has been extended to January 10, 2020! https://www.thewha.org/conferences/utah-2020-conference/cfp-2020-submissions/
CFP 2020 Submissions CFP 2020 WHA Conference Utah Individual paper proposal submission Click Here Organized paper panel session proposal submission Click Here Organized round table session proposal submission Click Here Organized workshop session proposal submission Click Here
2019 Utah State Historical Society conference attendees:
Join us this Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm in Room 1150, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, for the half-day symposium Utah at the Crossroads of the Mind: History and Philosophy at Midcentury.
This free event is organized by the Utah State Historical Society in partnership with the University of Utah's Department of Philosophy, Department of History, Continuing Education & Community Engagement, and American West Center. No RSVP needed. Kiosk parking is available on the west side of the library.
See the attached flyer for details. Hope to see you there!
Join our friends at the Marriott Library this Sunday to hear about Sondra Jones' new history of the Ute People!
Don’t miss the Treasures of the Transcontinental Railroad exhibition in its last week on display at the Utah Capitol! With many thanks to Brad Westwood.
https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/treasures-start-to-finish-pacific-railroad-act-1862-and-the-last-spikes-at-promontory-1869/
https://heritageandarts.utah.gov/treasures/
Need something to do this Friday afternoon? Stop by the Park City Library at 4 pm and see our director Dr. Greg Smoak talk about the Great Salt Lake!
https://www.parkrecord.com/entertainment/history-lecture-will-take-a-dip-into-the-great-salt-lake/
Throughout the centuries, the Great Salt Lake has fascinated residents, recreators and artists.Mineral extractors, swimmers and classic landscape artists such as Alfred W. Lambourn to more contemporary artists like
Join Dr. Barry McCarron from the NYU Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies, to discuss
“Irish Workers on the Transcontinental Railroad in Comparative Perspective," hosted by Utah Division of State History!
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5:30 - Appetizers and Irish music
6:00 - Presentation
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Congratulations to Hannah Smay, our outgoing Floyd ONeil Fellow! If you do Western public history, humanities and/or social science research, we’d love to see your applications for next year’s O’Neil Fellowship. https://awc.utah.edu/fellowship.php
Don't miss the 47th annual University of Utah Powwow, April 19-20!
The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah presents the Borderlands Conference at the Downtown Salt Lake City Public Library!
Thursday, April 4th, 7 PM, SLCPL Auditorium: Readings by Francisco Cantú and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, followed by a Q&A and book signing
Friday, April 5th, 1 PM, SLCPL 4th Floor: Readings by Yuri Herrera and Natalie Scenters-Zapico, followed by a Q&A and book signing
Friday, April 5th, 2 PM, SLCPL 4th Floor: Roundtable Discussion, including Francisco Cantú, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Yuri Herrera, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico
All events are free and open to the public
Books will be available for purchase on site from The King's English
Author Bios:
Francisco Cantú is the author of The Line Becomes a River, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. A former Fulbright fellow, he is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2017 Whiting Award. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho is the author of the story collection Barefoot Dogs, which won the Jesse H. Jones Award and was named one of the best books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Texas Observer and PRI’s The World. Born and raised in Toluca, Mexico, he now lives in Austin, Texas.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of two poetry collections, The Verging Cities (winner of the PEN America/Osterweil, GLCA, and Utah Book Awards) and Lima :: Limón. She is a fronteriza from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, México. She teaches poetry at Bennington College.
Yuri Hererera is the author of three novels, including Signs Preceding the End of the World, which won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. Born in Actopan, Mexico, he currently teaches at Tulane University.
Come see our own Greg Smoak discuss the Transcontinental Railroad with former AWC director Matt Basso and Utah poet laureate Paisley Rekdal!
https://umfa.utah.edu/node/333
2019 Mar 6 Wed Talks & Lectures Promontory Perspectives: A Faculty Conversation 7 pm | Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium | FREE Perspectives on the transcontinental railroad and its completion at Promontory Point are as dynamic as the moment itself. Join us for an evening of Universit...
Check out our freshly digitized Occasional Papers, decades' worth of highly specialized research freshly digitized by our friends at the Marriott Library!
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/search?facet_setname_s=uum_awcrp
http://ulink.utah.edu/s/1077/16/interior.aspx?sid=1077&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=10175&ecid=10175&crid=0&calpgid=2933&calcid=10164
Our own Travis Ross recalls his time at the U and the lasting impact of Floyd O'Neil.
Travis Ross PhD’17 was featured in the November issue of Alumni Connection after he and his associates received the Western History Association's Autry Public History Prize for an exhibit titled: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps. You can find the full story here.
Don't delay, submit a proposal for the Charles Redd Center's seminar next summer!
4 days left to submit a proposal for our June 2019 (fully-funded) seminar on the 21st Century American West! Nov. 30 deadline.
Topic: anything relating to the North American West (broadly conceived geographically) that is grounded in the 1990s-present!
Please share and apply! Just an abstract and CV needed right now. If accepted, you write an article in the 7,500-10,000 word range, we fly you to Utah and host you in June, we all sit around and workshop the papers, we give you revision/edit notes, you revise, then we edit and publish all the seminar essays as an anthology with a University press.
Email abstract & CV (or questions) to Brenden Rensink at bwrensink[at]byu[dot]edu.
More info here: http://reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-center-blog/Post/cfp---new-modern-histories-of-the-21st-centur
Western History Association President Donald L. Fixico dedicated his presidential address to our late, beloved Floyd A. O’Neil. Thanks Don.
Congratulations to AWC alum Travis Ross and the team responsible for Utah Drawn!
https://history.utah.edu/events-news/travis-ross-exhibit.php
PhD Graduate Travis Ross co-curates award winning exhibition
Though it pains us to see him go, we wish AWC alum and U of U History MA grad Benjamin Kiser the very best and are happy to share pictures of his farewell public history staff trip to the Spiral Jetty with Lisa Barr and Erin Adam, who are thankfully still with us at the Center
Congratulations to new MA graduates at the American West Center - Amanda Scheuerman, Erin Adam, Lisa Barr, and Ben Kiser!
We are saddened beyond measure to report the April 18 passing of Dr. Floyd A. O'Neil, Emeritus Director of the American West Center and our great friend. A tireless advocate for Native American education, for public history, and for his students, Floyd came to the Center in 1967 and never left. “You’ll be a grandfather before I will,” he would tell three generations of graduate students. Little did he admit that he was a grandfather to all of us. We’ll miss you, Floyd.
This Sunday at the Marriott Library come hear Hikmet Loe talk about the surreal landscape of Great Salt Lake and the unforgettable land art it has inspired.
Need some neo-noir in your life? Get some tonight! Commentary by our own Dr. Gregory Smoak
Our own Dr. Greg Smoak will be lecturing on Native Peoples in Utah Territory tomorrow afternoon in Park City!
Director Emeritus Floyd O'Neil in the news!
At 90 years of age, you’ll still find Floyd O’Neil in his book-filled office in the U’s American West Center, where he has worked since 1966 and where he served as director for 11 years.
Lo he returns smelling of strong drink, and the truth is not in him.
We are thrilled beyond words to welcome Emeritus Director Floyd A. O’Neil back to his office after far too long an absence!
David Rich Lewis beware. He’s coming for you next
In Memory of Louise Pubols
As I remember our dear colleague, Louise Pubols, former Senior Curator of History here at the Oakland Museum of California who passed away earlier this year, I can picture so many moments from the years we worked together. Memories of her are intertwined with all of the exhibitions she led throughou...
A fine celebration with AWC November birthday folks Amanda Scheuerman, Ben Kiser, Erin Adam and our admirable conductor Greg Smoak, presided over by the inimitable Floyd and Shauna O’Neil
Catch "Narrating Wars: Vietnamese Perspectives on the Legacies of Armed Conflict," October 26, at the University of Utah
Don’t miss Navajo voices on Bears Ears tonight! Follow the link to livestream.
http://www.law.utah.edu/event/navajo-voices-on-bears-ears/
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Western History Association President Donald L. Fixico dedicated his presidential address to our late, beloved Floyd A. O’Neil. Thanks Don.
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