Professor Bradley Parker recently published an article in the prestigious journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. The article enumerates the methodologies in microartifact sampling, processing and analysis that he has been working on for several years in the field and in the archaeology laboratory in CTIHB 209. The article, entitled “Fragments of the Past” also represents Professor Parker’s second major publication about his fieldwork in the Andes. An online version of the article can be found through Cambridge Core.

 

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Most Recent Faculty News

• The U History Department Welcomes Professor Nicole Giannella

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• Bradley Parker Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

  Associate professor of history Dr. Bradley Parker has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue his archaeological work on Inca and Wari Imperialism in Ayacucho, Peru.

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• American Historical Association Selects Department Professors for 2017 Career Diversity Initiative

  The American Historical Society has announced its participants for the 2017-18 Career Diversity for Historians Faculty Institute, including Department Chair and Professor Eric Hinderaker, Professor Matt Basso, Professor Greg Smoak, and Professor Paul Reeve.

• Professor Elizabeth Clement Receives U's Faculty Recognition Award

  Dr. Clement was one of 20 faculty members selected out of over 200 nominations to receive this year's award. Her nomination by student Amy Brown emphasized Dr. Clemet's "dedication to helping students find resources, figuring out their career passions, and realize the possibilities that exist for their futures".

• Matthew Basso Named State Scholar for Smithsonian Institute Museum Program

  Professor Matthew Basso has been named the State Scholar for the Smithsonian Institute's The Way We Worked, a Museum on Main Street program. Presented by Utah Humanities and the Smithsonian Institute, this exhibition of work and labor in American history began its year-long Utah tour in January at the Ogden Union Station.

• Danielle Olden Awarded an NEH Fellowship

  Danielle Olden, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The year-long NEH Fellowship will enable Danielle to complete her book, Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post-Civil Rights America,which examines Denver, Colorado's battle over school desegregation in the late 1960s and 1970s.

• Paul Reeve Honored As UCSS Teacher of the Year

  The Utah Council for the Social Studies recently honored Professor Paul Reeve with its University Teacher of the Year Award at its annual conference in Salt Lake City. The UCSS recognized Professor Reeve for his contributions to the teaching of Utah history in particular and his efforts to re-imagine and reinvigorate pedagogical approaches to that subject.

• Bradley Parker Speaks On Protecting Utah's Archaeology

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• Nadja Durbach Wins John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016

  Nadja Durbach is an historian of modern Britain who specializes in the history of the body. During her Guggenheim Fellowship, Professor Durbach will be working on a book entitled, Many Mouths: State-Feeding in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State.

• Beth Clement Wins Teaching Award and Featured in U of U Innovate Report

  Associate Professor Elizabeth Clement has not only won the 2016 Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in General Education, but over the last two years, Clement has been active in the creation and processing of the new Kristen Ries/Maggie Snyder HIV/AIDS Collection at the Marriott Library. Click "Read more" for the link.

• Professor Paul Reeve wins MHA Best Book Award

  According to the BYU Studies Review, "Religion of a Different Color is a true historical tour de force. It instantly joins the elite ranks of the Mormon studies canon, becoming required reading for anyone interested in the Mormon past (or present).

• Rebecca Horn Wins Excellence in Global Education Award

  Of professor Horn, the Office for Global Engagement commented that "her leadership to establish the Center for Latin American Studies and gain NRC status has a far-reaching impact for student and faculty global engagement at the U as well as in K-12 education and the local community."

• A Banner Year for Historian of Religion Colleen McDannell

  Along with a number of scientists and two poets, Colleen McDannell won the 2015 Distinguished Scholarly & Creative Research Award. She is among the first Humanities scholars to win the prestigious prize.