UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2012-2013 KLIO 215 South Central Campus Drive - Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Suite 310 - Salt Lake City, 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 Bu ough 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. Miche e 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.