UNIVERSITY OF DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2012-2013 KLIO 215 South Central Campus Drive - Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Suite 310 - , UT 84112 Message from the Chair of the Department

As the Department of History enters its fifth year at the A record eleven students graduated with a Master’s Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, it is degree in 2011-12. Those continuing in the program have encouraging to report that the department continues to been successful in obtaining grants, and two have grow, with the addition of new faculty, exciting new received travel awards to work in archives in the U.S. courses, new students, and new curricular connections and France. with programs and centers across the university. Thanks to the great generosity of the Smith-Pettit In January the department’s international and Foundation, the department awarded its first award for interdisciplinary strengths were highlighted, alongside graduate research in Mormon History. This year the community projects, in a History department video award’s first honoree is J. B. Haws, whose doctoral broadcast to a national audience of historians at the dissertation, “The Mormon Image in the American annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Mind: Shaping Public Perception of Latter-day Saints, held in Chicago. The film profile, entitled “Globally 1968-2008,” will be published by Oxford University Minded, Locally Grounded” featured History faculty Press. and students who spoke eloquently about the richness of the educational experience in the department and at As we started the 2012-13 academic year, we looked the U. In communicating such a broad vision of forward to two major public lectures in the department: connections and opportunities to be gained from The O. Meredith Wilson Lecture, September 27, was studying history, our students and faculty eloquently delivered by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of expressed the relevance and value of a History degree as History at Columbia University who spoke on the preparation for professional life in our increasingly subject of his most recent book, The Fiery Trial: global and interconnected world. The video can be Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the viewed on the History department’s website. Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and The In April the department hosted its inaugural conference Lincoln Prize; and on October 2, Alice Dreger, Professor for undergraduate students, graduates, and faculty, titled of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at “Practicing History.” In twelve panels over two days, the Northwestern University, delivered the biennial Vern and conference showcased the research of 36 undergraduate, Bonnie Buough Lecture in the History of Sex and Gender. graduate and faculty scholars. We hope to repeat the Both events are highlights of the academic year. The success of the conference next year in what we hope will History department cordially invites friends and alumni become an annual event, showcasing the research of the to join us for these events each year. entire departmental community. With the support of the friends of the department we The faculty grew in the past two years with the are looking forward to an exciting year ahead. additions of Dr. Hugh Cagle and Dr. Michee Wolfe. Hugh Cagle’s research on disease and the culture of science in Portuguese India and the Atlantic in the Early Modern era, and his courses on the History of Brazil Isabel Moreira and on the Age of Exploration, are exciting additions to the department’s offerings in colonial history. Michelle Professor and Chair Wolfe focuses on gender and religion in Early Modern Britain and will add classes on Tudor and Stuart Britain, the Atlantic World and the History of the Family to the department’s curriculum.

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ANNUAL DEPARTMENT EVENTS O. MEREDITH WILSON LECTURE History Department This year the While much of the contemporary Office Wilson Lecture political culture makes attempts to was given by simplify the mind and actions of 215 S. Central Campus Dr. the DeWitt Abraham Lincoln, Professor Foner CTIHB Room 310 Clinton painted a far more sophisticated and Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Professor of complex person than that of the lure (801) 581-6121 History, Eric which prevails in the American history.utah.edu Foner, on his conscience. The O. Meredith Wilson klio.utah.edu recent Lecture is a crowning event for the publication of Department of History, and we’re very The Fiery Trial: fortunate to have had such a celebrated Academic Administration Abraham expert with us in September. Lincoln and Isabel Moreira, American Chair Slavery. Nadja Durbach, He spoke to a packed lecture hall in the Associate Chair CTIHB room 109. His lecture traced Eric Hinderaker the evolution of Lincoln’s views and Director of Graduate policies regarding slavery and how the Studies related issue of race shifted the tense political terrain leading up to and throughout the American Civil War. The Staff Ashley Black VERN & BONNIE BULLOUGH LECTURE IN THE Front Desk Christopher Bradshaw HISTORY OF SEX & GENDER Administrative Assist Karen Iannucci This year came to be a medical concept and Administrative Officer the Bullough why it has been a term purged from Copeland Johnston Lecture, in the medical lexicon due to its Project Coordinator conjunction pejorative nature. This shift in Karleton Munn with the language matter has been an integral Academic Advisor College of product of the intersex and civil Brian Tran Humanities rights movement in the United Front Desk and States. Department of Medical Humanities, presented Dr. Alice Dreger’s lecture titled “Where Newsletter front page Hermaphrodites Came from, and title photograph by Where they Went.” Dreger Laura Summerfield addressed a packed lecture hall of mostly students. The hermaphrodite has come and gone in Western medicine. Dr. Dreger Klio, Muse of History explored how the “hermaphrodite”

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FACULTY UPDATES The University of Utah Department of History Welcomes New Faculty Member, Michelle Wolfe Michelle Wolfe works on the intersection of gender and religion in early modern Britain and the Anglophone Atlantic. She graduated A.B. with Honors from the University of Chicago in 1994, received a Master’s Degrees in Women’s Studies in Religion and History of Christianity from the School of Religion at Claremont, and completed her Ph.D. in History at the Ohio State University. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the University of London, and taught courses at Otterbein College, the Ohio State University and Harvard Divinity School. She has presented portions of her dissertation and book research at several national conferences (North American Conference on British Studies, American Historical Association, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ecclesiastical History Society, Berkshire Conference on Women’s History) and published essays in Historical Journal and Studies in Church History. Her teaching interests include the history of Europe and the Atlantic world, historical sexualities and gender systems and religion in world history. She is currently completing her first book, The Gender Reformation: Clerical Marriage and Clerical Manhood in Early Modern England. Her book argues that the shift from a celibate to a married priesthood required a radical reformation of Christian masculinity, as well as the creation of a new social role: the parson’s wife.

W. Lindsey Adams, the recipient of the 2009 ASUU “Student Choice On July 1, 2012, he concluded his second term as the director Teaching Award” and 2011-12 Phi Alpha Theta “Professor of the Year,” of the American West Center and handed the reigns of that presses on with his usual gusto. He is in his second term as the august institution to Greg Smoak. He is delighted that he is President of the Association of Ancient Historians, and editorial leaving the center in the hands of one of the nation’s premier consultant for The Ancient World. If that isn’t enough he is also the public historians and that the ties between it and the Director of the Scott R. Jacobs Fund for Research and Study of department of history – where it was conceived almost fifty Alexander the Great, which sponsors research and scholarly years ago – will remain strong. He is delighted to have more presentations for doctoral students and junior faculty, as well as support time to devote to several new projects and to slow down a little for conferences in general on the topic of Alexander the Great. As the bit. director of that fund it seems only appropriate that he will be working on Hugh Cagle joined the Department of History in the fall of 2011 an international symposium co-sponsored by the history department on after completing his PhD at Rutgers University. He is trained in Alexander the Great scheduled to be held here in October of 2014! Latin American history (especially Brazil), the history of science, Matthew Basso co-authored We Shall Remain: A Native History of and comparative colonial history. He is now revising a book Utah and America, a K-12 textbook that places the experiences of manuscript about the field of intellectual inquiry now referred to American Indians at the center of Utah history. We Shall Remain, and as “tropical medicine” as it emerged in Portugal’s equatorial the Utah American Indian Digital Archive project that he also led, colonies between about 1450 and 1750. He uses debates over together received the Western History Association’s Autry Public the causes and treatment of diseases like cholera and malaria History Prize, as well as several other awards. Another book project to show that colonial medicine depended not on the expertise that he has been laboring over for many years was recently published. of university-trained, male physicians from the West, but was Men at Work: Rediscovering Depression-Era Stories from the Federal built instead on the expertise of non-European, non-Christian Writers’ Project (University of Utah Press, 2012), brings long lost stories specialists—particularly women—in places as far apart as Goa, about work in the 1930s by FWP authors to the American public for the India and Bahia, Brazil. Over the last few years, Dr. Cagle’s first time. On the publication front, lastly, he completed his monograph work has won the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, on World War II home front masculinity. It will be out from the University Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, of Chicago Press in the summer of 2013. and the University of Texas at Austin.

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CONT... FACULTY(Cagle continued) He has been asked to co-edit a specialUPDATES, issue of the She continues to remain actively involved in both the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies devoted to the subject of undergraduate and graduate programs and is in the process of medicine in Portugal and its early empire. And he has recently been helping to develop several new courses. Professor Durbach was invited to present his research in Lisbon at the Fundação Calouste recently promoted to Full Professor and is currently serving as the Gulbenkian in April of 2013. Meanwhile, Dr. Cagle’s first publications department’s Associate Chair. have come out with Ashgate (as a piece co-written with Michael Larry Gerlach will retire this year after forty-five years at the Adas on "The Age of Settlement and Colonization") and LSU press University of Utah. He looks forward to retirement with enthusiasm (in a collection of essays that focuses on women in the Iberian tinged with anxiety as he leaves both the mindset and routine that so Atlantic). dominated his life for those many years. For him, teaching has not Elizabeth Alice Clement: After publishing her first book Love for been what he does, it’s who he is. While he still enjoys the challenges Sale with UNC Press in 2006, you would think that Professor and gratifications of the classroom, there are places to see, people to Clement would relax, take a load off, and generally enjoy being visit, and projects to finish before the sand passes through his tenured. Alas, if only that were true. Professor Clement immediately personal hourglass. He is going out if not with a bang, then at least began working on a new book project titled “We Are Family”: with a whimper. During the summer term both students and he Lesbians, Gays, and the American Family, 1945-2010.” This project thoroughly enjoyed his last classes on the Olympics as a prelude to has taken her to archives in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles London 2012. and Toronto and has received support both from the University of For the rest of the year, he will present papers at three conferences, Utah and from the American Philosophical Society. taking three long over-due research trips, awaiting the imminent When not working on the project, Professor Clement can still be appearance of two articles, and hoping to finish another section of a found in the classroom, and she has won several awards for her book on the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics. He will miss the teaching, including the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award in colleagues with whom he has worked over the years as well as those 2011. She still bikes to work, and continues to grow organic students who made teaching so rewarding. Higher education has vegetables in Sugarhouse. In 2007, Professor Clement had a changed dramatically over the years; and he declares he has, too, so daughter, which now brings the stepchild/bio child count up to five, he says it is time for him to pack up a vast archive of memories and and she has four grandsons. She and her daughter and the two follow Jedediah Smith’s lead in blazing new paths into uncharted older grandsons often entertain themselves and each other building territory. with keva planks and playing with their super awesome wooden Robert Alan Goldberg has accepted a third, three year term as marble run. Director of the Tanner Humanities Center. He is also serving as the Benjamin Cohen received a Tanner Humanities Center Virgil C. interim co-director of the Middle East Center. Meanwhile, he is Aldrich Faculty Fellow for the Spring Semester 2013. During this time working on a new book on American Conservatism since the Cohen will continue work on a monograph detailing a late nineteenth 1960s, using Utah as his focal point to explore the evolution of the century scandal in the Indian princely state of Hyderabad. movement, its organizations, ideology, and constituencies. Ronald Coleman continues to research African Americans in Utah Eric Hinderaker is once again serving as the department’s Director from the World War II to 1980. He is particularly involved with the role of Graduate Studies, a little more than a decade after last filling that of sports at the collegiate and professional levels as a way to open role; he enjoys the opportunity to interact closely with a terrific doors of familiarity and greater interaction across racial lines. He cohort of graduate students. In 2010, Harvard University Press reviews manuscripts for the University of California Press and the published The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery. In “Pacific Historical Review.” He also recently gave a talk to the 2011, as co-PI on a grant from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Genesis Group, a support group for African American members of the Fort Hall, he worked with Greg Smoak, Jenel Cope, and Tim Glenn Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For fun he continues to to complete a study of historic Shoshone and Bannock hunting, root for the San Francisco Giants and Forty-Niners and the “Utes.” fishing, and gathering activities outside the state of Idaho. He recently agreed to join the author team of America’s History, a Edward Davies is teaching America at War and the Korean War this survey textbook published by Bedford-St. Martin’s, and is currently Fall Semester. A chapter he wrote for an anthology has appeared finishing work on his seven-chapter contribution. He eagerly awaits recently: "The Americas, 500 BCE-2000 CE." (New York: Oxford the chance to resume work on a book manuscript about the Boston University Press, 2011) in the Oxford Handbook for World History, Massacre, which is under contract with Harvard University Press. edited by Jerry Bentley. Rebecca Horn continues to write and publish in both her home Nadja Durbach has been actively engaged in a variety of research field of Nahua Studies and the comparative field of European projects over the past several years. In 2010 she published Spectacle colonization in the early modern Americas. She recently published of Deformity, a cultural history of freak shows in modern Britain. She (as co-author) the second edition of Resilient Cultures: America's has also recently published an article on the “Body Worlds” exhibit Native Peoples Confront European Colonization, 1500-1800 and is currently working on two completely different projects: one on (Pearson). An article, "Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica After roast beef dinners in the Victorian workhouse and the other on the the Spanish Conquest," is forthcoming in the anthology, Native emergence of abbreviated birth certificates in twentieth-century Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Britain. Americas (University of Nebraska Press).

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CONT... FACULTY(Horn Continued) Currently, she is working (as co-editor) UPDATES, on an The UIS database thus contains all excavation records including edited collection of Nahuatl testaments written by native scribes in descriptions, measurements and photographs of all excavated their home communities for their own purposes. Various scholars contexts, daily journals, field photographs and daily trench plans as who work with these rich primary sources will each contribute a set well as drawings, photographs, descriptions and analyses of various of testaments (in transcription, translation, along with extensive categories of finds including ceramics, animal bones, human bones, commentary) from a particular region or community, shedding light botanical remains, lithics and micro debris. on cultural change in indigenous communities across time. Susie Porter is active with the Westside Leadership Institute (WLI) She also continues to serve as Director of the Latin American which is a community leadership course that offers a space for Studies Program. We have just received a Department of West Side Salt Lake City residents to meet and learn, and to serve Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign as catalysts for positive change. The course guides participants Language (UISFL) grant (approximately $80,000/year for two years) through a process of identifying community problems, coming up to strengthen Spanish and Portuguese language instruction and with creative solutions, and carrying out projects to address those Latin American Studies content courses on campus. This grant will problems. provide the opportunity for the Latin American Studies Program to WLI projects have included access to health services for Spanish reach a new level of development as it aims to acquire National speakers; support for women living with domestic violence; legal Resource Center status in the next application cycle in 2014. and social services for families facing deportation; mentoring girls; Colleen McDannell, Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious suicide prevention, and more. Studies, carries on with the usual demands of academic rigors this year. In the middle of her recent trips to Istanbul, quests for Since 2008, the History Department has supported her teaching the tantalizing cuisine, Salt Lake Film Society ventures, and her Spanish-language WLI. The WLI is the result of collaboration summers in France this bon vivant has managed to publish another between University Neighborhood Partners (UNP); NeighborWorks book! Colleen’s newest work is titled The Spirit of Vatican II, A Salt Lake (a national non-profit dedicated to community History of Catholic Reform in America (Basic Books, 2011). Her development); and, several units on campus including the Center new volume views the changes for American Catholics through the for Public Policy and Administration, the Gender Studies Program. lens of her mother’s experiences. John S. Reed was recently promoted to Associate Professor Lecturer. He has a busy Fall Semester ahead of him teaching a Isabel Moreira is entering her second year as chair of the total of 470 students and managing five Teaching Assistants for his department. She has been enjoying giving talks on hell and US History Survey courses. Reed’s area of expertise is the purgatory since the publication of Heaven’s Purge: Purgatory in Progressive Era and the New Deal. Outside of the lecture hall he is Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press) and Hell and its Afterlife also the co-advisor for the U’s history student association, Phi (co-edited with Margaret Toscano). She has an article appearing in Alpha Theta. the journal QMAN “Hector of Marseilles is Purged: Political Rehabilitation and Guilt by Association in the Seventh-Century In addition to teaching and other academic pursuits Reed spends Passion of Leudegar of Autun.” time with his wife and daughter who share a common passion for cinema especially Studio Ghibli Films. Reed was for many years an Bradley Parker has been hard at work on an on-line resource called the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project Information Army reservist, and was interviewed by the Salt Lake Tribune in System or UIS. This project, which has been more than thirteen December 2011 about his experiences in Iraq during 2007-08. years in the making, is not only the first of its kind but may chart a W. Paul Reeve: In 2011 Utah State University Press published new path for publication in archaeology. UIS is a searchable on-line Between Pulpit and Pew: The Supernatural World in Mormon database that contains all of the records from more than a decade History and Folklore, a collection of essays that Dr. Reeve coedited of excavation conducted by members of the Upper Tigris with University of Utah history alum, Michael Scott Van Wangenen. Archaeological Research Project (UTARP) at the site of Kenan Tepe It is a group of scholarly essays on fun topics in Mormon lore, in southeastern Turkey. including Cain/Bigfoot legends, raising the dead stories, Gadianton Robber legends, the Bear Lake Monster, UFO’s, the Dream Mine, Archaeological excavation produces huge amounts of data. In spite and walking on water legends. of this, using traditional methods of paper publication, on average less than 1% of excavated data is ever published. “Let’s face it, for For the 2011-2012 academic year Dr. Reeve earned a sabbatical every find or other discovery that might make it to publication, there and University Faculty Fellowship which he used to work on his are reams of excavation records, notes and photographs that do book project, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon not” said Professor Parker. Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Struggle for Whiteness, under contract at Oxford University Press. Project `s excavations at Kenan Tepe (www.utarp.org) are the first Before his sabbatical year, Dr. Reeve received the University of time an archaeological excavation was planned, executed and Utah’s Early Career Teaching Award and the Ramona W. Cannon completed with the intent of publishing a comprehensive corpus of Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. all of the excavation records and analyses in digital format. Working Wesley Sasaki-Uemura: Instead of academic musings Wes with Peter Cobb (University of Pennsylvania), who was at the time a decided to boast about a life-changing Summer expedition to graduate student in the University of Utah's Computer Science Japan! He went to the biggest demonstration he had ever seen. It Department, Professor Parker designed a computer system that was the Sayonara Nuclear Power "assembly and parade" in Tokyo, would allow members of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research July 16th. Project (UTARP) to digitize their data as they were excavated. Later, specialists analyzing finds or other data sets also added their analyses to the system.

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CONT... (Sasaki-UemuraFACULTY continued) They do not refer to them UPDATES, as protests Peter von Sivers published this year Patterns of World History and demonstrations anymore because the organizers want to (Oxford University Press, 2012) along with colleagues Charles project a more positive image. The crowd was estimated at Desnoyers, and George Stow. The publication was the fifth best 170,000 or nearly the size of metropolitan Salt Lake's population. selling title at OUP during July, according to the editor. They (When you are in the middle of it, there is no way to visually assess completed the proofs for the abridged version of Patterns, which the size of the crowd). The gathering was the culmination of a has just appeared with a copyright of 2013. Peter is now in the continuing series of actions to oppose the restart of nuclear power middle of his monograph on Islamic origins, specifically the plants across the country. Many of the participating groups Umayyad kingdom of Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, which he hopes to emphasized the need to think of the future of their children. complete in the course of next year. Two articles on Middle Ronald Smelser: In his 38th year of teaching at the University of Eastern topics are in press. Utah, Professor Smelser still tackles his subject matter with his usual élan. This year he was awarded the University’s Graduate Student Awards Distinguished Faculty Service Award based on his years of service in his field. The award recognized him for the three 2012-2013 decades he has chaired the university’s Holocaust Days of Remembrance Commemoration committee, which involves Dean May Fellows workshops, keynote speakers, films and candlelight vigils. The Nels Abrams & campus events are coordinated with state events, which include Travis Ross a ceremony at the state capitol and a proclamation by the governor. The award also recognized him for his ongoing service Burton Fellows as an expert witness for the United States Justice Department in Kendra Kennedy & Leighton Quarles denaturalization/deportation hearings involving former Nazi Department Fellows concentration camp guards who illegally entered this country to acquire citizenship. He also continues the eleven year tradition Jennifer Macia & Yvette Tuell of accompanying UofU students to the Free University of Berlin in the summer, where he mentors them and teaches a course on Nazi Germany. In addition, Professor Smelser is working on a The Smith Pettit Award in Mormon History book with the tentative title “The Nazi Regime and the German The History Department Worker”. congratulates John Ben Ginger L. Smoak, Assistant Professor Lecturer, is a medievalist who specializes in social, gender, and medical history. This is Haws who is the recipient her third year here at the University of Utah, after teaching for of the first annual Smith many years at Colorado State University, and she is learning to Pettit Award in Mormon become a “Utahn”. She is full of contradictions: she does History. He was granted European history in Utah, she enjoys travel but doesn’t get out this award for his much, and she once took bagpipe lessons but is inherently unmusical. She is also faculty co-advisor for the Alpha Rho dissertation titled “The Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, and Meaning of ‘Mormon’ in the urges you all to consider joining! Her article, “Witness Testimony American Mind: Shaping Public perceptions of and the Ecclesiastical and Municipal Regulation of Midwifery in Latter-day Saints, 1968-2008.” the Late Middle Ages” is being published in Quidditas V. 33, (2012), the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and The Alpha Rho Chapter of Phi Alpha Renaissance Association, of which she is secretary, in Theta, National History Honor Society, November. won the Best Chapter Award last year Gregory Smoak: Since joining the history department in August 2010 Greg has taught courses in American Indian, American for the second time in a row! We Western, and Environmental history. As of July 1, 2012, he took participated in the annual on a new role, as director of the University’s American West undergraduate conference at Westminster Center. His most recent publication, “The Native West Before College and also published our journal 1700” was published in the volume The World of the American Historia. The journal provides a way for West in 2011. Greg is currently completing an environmental history of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument under undergraduates to publish their research and papers, contract with the , as well as a chapter on and is peer-reviewed. This year’s Phi Alpha Theta Great Basin Indian history for the new Handbook of American conference will take place in the Spring at Utah State Indian History to be published by Oxford University Press. University. We just had our Fall Social event- historical jeopardy!- and a good time was had by all! Please consider joining-it is a great opportunity for all history majors and those just interested in history!

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A Message from the Associate Chair, Nadja Durbach Carlson Hall 1938-2013 Carlson Hall, the previous home of the History In April of 2012 the Department of Department at the University of Utah, is going under the History inaugurated its first annual wrecking ball! Yes, in the name of progress Carlson Hall conference, entitled “Practicing will be torn down in the Spring of 2013 to accommodate History.” The conference brought the Law School. The news of Carlson Hall’s destruction is together undergraduates, graduate received with sighs of astonishment. Most declare, students, and faculty to share their “Carlson Hall is on the National Historic Registry, they original research at a two-day can’t do that!” According to Associate Professor Paul conference. This year’s conference will Reeve, “the National Historic Registry guarantees nothing. be held in the Spring of 2013 and will Structures listed on the registry help it qualify for federal feature a keynote from Professor L. Ray money for improvements and substantiates a building’s Gunn as well as papers from students and historical significance, but it does not prevent it from being faculty. The event is free and open to the public. torn down.” Carlson Hall was a result of the Works Progress Mark your calendars and join the History Administration (WPA), a New Deal Department’s 2nd Annual “Practicing History” program. However, the bulk of the conference April 19 & 20, 2013 in the CTIHB room 351. structure's funding was a bequest from the Mary P. Carlson estate. A Message from the Director of Graduate The building was named for Studies, Eric Hinderaker her husband, and former member of the Board of The past two years have been Regents, August W. eventful ones in the department’s Carlson. Carlson Hall graduate program. Our students was a result of decades are exceptionally bright, able, and of struggle to construct well prepared, and the ratio of PhD a center for women. It served as a to MA students is higher than ever women’s dormitory and social hall. The hall is one of two before. Many of our PhD historic women’s dormitories in the state of Utah. The admissions have come here to work layers of significance Carlson Hall represents to women, in the field of the American West— our nation, state and the University of Utah are numerous. an area of perennial strength that is especially well served by The day those walls come tumbling down will be an our current faculty. We have worked hard to ensure that our emotional one for those who utilized that historic place. graduate students have the resources they need for travel and professional development, and—as we recover from the The Carlson Scholarship Fund devastating budget cuts that began in 2008—we are optimistic that they will have the support they need to excel in their The History Department announces a scholarship chosen fields. fund campaign in the name of August & Mary P.

Last year, the department went through a yearlong re- Carlson. The Carlson Scholarship will help retain evaluation of our degree requirements. We made some the department’s historic connection with Carlson significant changes, especially to the MA program. It now Hall. Please consider a contribution to this fund by includes a stronger emphasis on research seminars, and a larger number of our students will be completing portfolios going to www.history.utah.edu, click on “Give to the that include annotated syllabi and bibliographies as part of Department” and go to the “History” link. Please their programs of study. We have also added faculty designate your contribution by filling in the honoree members who will significantly enhance our program. Hugh line with “Carlson Scholarship Fund.” You may Cagle, who was hired in 2011 in the field of Colonialism and also send checks to the department payable to the Imperialism, has already begun to make his mark with “U of U History Department,” and note the students working in that field, and the addition of Michelle Wolfe, who joined the faculty this fall, means that we have a scholarship in the memo line. scholar of exceptional ability working in Early Modern Britain. Any graduate program is always a work in progress, but we continue to seek ways to prepare our students for their professional lives as historians in the 21st century.

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Department of History Undergraduate Awards 2012-2013

The Gregory C. The John Williams Tuition-Waiver Crampton Scholarship James Family Scholarship for Entering Grant Burton Scholarship Students Geneva Thompson Adrian Bushman Melissa Chandler

The James H. & Mary The Essay Award Tuition-Waiver Ann Gardner Andrew Haacke Scholarship for Transfer Scholarship Continuing Students Hayden Smith Senior with the Highest Maria Hunter GPA Award Emily la Bonte Kendra Yates Chad McCleary The Harvard David Camille Peters Hanks Scholarship Hans Morrow Junior Ryan Davis Student Award Kelly Hanks Kathy Tran Maria Hunter