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In Brief
A monthly update of publications, recognitions and accomplishments
Recent News and Awards
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Humans of the U | Emma Koa
“I like Salt Lake City because it’s given me more room to explore, learn new things, and get involved in both city and mountain life. In my hometown, it’s really the same group of people. You don’t get to try out new things with new people. I enjoy the diversity here and the opportunities to make new friends
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College of Humanities Welcomes New Acting Dean, Wanda Pillow
Meet Wanda S. Pillow, new Acting Dean for the College of Humanities, and learn about her scholarly background, support for student success, and why she
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John R. Park Debate Society Hosts 14th Annual Beehive Bonanza for High Schools
JRP Debate Society's high school outreach is off to an impressive start in 2024, with Beehive Bonanza drawing over 600 high school participants from high schools in five states.
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10 Years of Learning and Growth for Humanities at Utah Asia Campus
At the 10th anniversary of the Utah Asia Campus, we reflect on the growth and change and what it means for Humanities students.
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HUMANITIES Internship SPOTLIGHT | Nathan Le
Nathan Le is a Communication major at the University of Utah. This fall semester (2024), he received a for-credit, paid internship with Intermountain Health.
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UAC Master's Student Spotlight | Heather Meyer
The Department of Communication was recently able to speak to a student from the Utah Asia Campus Strategic Communication Master's Program. Heather Anne Meyer is part of the inaugural cohort of seven master's students studying communication in Incheon, Korea.
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Alumni Spotlight - Deanie Wimmer
Learn more about Deanie's story, her experiences as a student in the humanities, and the best professional advice she ever received.
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Censorship, Surveillance, and Identifying the Unknown
Yuree Noh, affiliate faculty in the College of Humanities' Middle East Center, was recently awarded two grants to study public opinions about women's and migrants' rights in the United Arab Emirates, and develop the world's most comprehensive dataset of surveillance and censorship practices.
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KRCL | U of U Student-Produced Audio Stories Ep5: Tattoo Stories & Removery
With Graduates from The Other Side Academy & Amplify Utah. By students Crystal Fraughton and Eseudel Jang, and TOSA graduate Diego Cortez, who now manages TOSA Moving & Stories, with production help from RadioACTive's Connor Estes
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College of Humanities Faculty Honored for Exemplary Service
Discover the four outstanding faculty members honored with prestigious awards in the College of Humanities. Learn about their achievements and contributions to academic excellence.
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Remembering and Reckoning: October 7th Anniversary Conversation
On Monday, October 7th, Hollis Robbins, Dean of the College of Humanities, and Chris Low, Director of the Middle East Center, held a conversation titled “Remembering and Reckoning,” centered around the way that anniversaries and dates organize our experiences and public memory.
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Come Learn about the COH at Humanities Day
Humanities Day is October 26, 2024, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., when high school students from across Utah will be able to choose from a variety of faculty presentations and learn more about what life is like in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah.
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Humans of the U: Seungjoo (June) Yang
“One of the most meaningful experiences I had during my time at the University of Utah Asia Campus was producing independent films with my friends on campus. We called ourselves ‘Pocket Production,’ meaning we created independent films with a small budget from our pockets. The experience taught me how to work well with a team and apply what I learned in the classroom to the real world."
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Humanities Ambassador Spotlight | Haven Elison
I really wanted to get more involved with the campus community and thought that becoming an ambassador would be an amazing opportunity to do so.
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KRCL | U of U Student-Produced Audio Stories Ep4: Mentorship Miracles
With Graduates from The Other Side Academy & Amplify Utah By students Jae Bin Francis Shim and Jordyn Bates, and TOSA graduate Tiffany Blair, who is now a coach at The Other Side Village.
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Humanities Ambassador Spotlight | Diane Montague
I'm a History major with a minor in Asian Studies, and I'm getting a certificate in International Relations. I've always been drawn to history but enrolled initially as a political science major.
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Graduate Student Kieron Walquist Winner of 2024 National Poetry Series Competition
Our Hands Hold Violence by Kieron Walquist. Chosen by Brenda Hillman for Beacon Press
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Great Books and “the Basic Questions of Human Existence”
In essence, Great Books is a crash course in the key problems and resources of cultural value and human understanding – all rolled into one tour-de-force romp through nearly 3,000-years of intellectual history.
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Understanding Current Events in the Middle East
Chris Low, Director of the Middle East Center, shared a nuanced, historically-grounded analysis of the current conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon in an interview with KUTV2.
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Today it’s Haitian refugees. It used to be Latter-day Saints.
Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies, Departmental Chair, and Professor in the History Department, W. Paul Reeves published an opinion piece in the Salt Lake Tribune on the similarities between Haitian refugees and Latter-day Saints.
In Brief
October 2022
- Joy Pierce, associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies, published a chapter Studies in Symbolic Interaction. The special issue: “Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well” includes world-renowned qualitative research scholars. Pierce’s chapter is titled “Fishing with the GOAT: Honoring Norman K. Denzin.”
- Brandon R. Peterson, associate professor (lecturer) of philosophy, published an article, “Rahner and the Cross: What Kind of Atoning Story Does He Tell?” in the latest issue of Philosophy & Theology.
- Maile Arvin, associate professor of history, created a podcast, Relations of Salt and Stars. Our ancestors traveled through salt and stars, and so do contemporary Pacific Islander communities today. Relations of Salt and Stars is a new podcast produced by the Pacific Islands Studies program at the University of Utah, and hosted by faculty members Arvin (Native Hawaiian) and Angela Robinson (Chuukese).
November 2022
- Kevin Coe’s (professor of communication) book, “The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times” (coauthored with Joshua Scacco, University of South Florida) received the 2022 Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award from the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
- Jeff McCarthy, director of Environmental Humanities, organized a climate change roundtable at the Modernist Studies Association Conference titled "Modernist Salvage / Salvaging Modernism."
December 2022
- Hollis Robbins, dean of the College of Humanities, published “Examining Phillis Wheatley” in the LA Review of Books.
- Joy Pierce, associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies, was nominated, then chosen to participate as part of the inaugural cohort in the Leadership Institute for a New Academy 2023 (LINA), a new ACLS initiative made possible by the Mellon Foundation. The 2023 spring semester-long initiative will conclude with a four-day meeting in New York this July.
- Joy Pierce, associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies, has been invited to conduct a half-day workshop (solo) on digital qualitative research with an emphasis on data collection and ethics for the International Qualitative Research Network at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. The workshop will take place in June 2023.
- Eric Herschthal, assistant professor of history, published a review-essay in The New Republic titled, “How the Right Turned 'Freedom' Into a Dog Whistle.”
- Nadja Durbach, professor of history at the University of Utah, along with Tammy M. Proctor of Utah State University will serve as co-editors of the Journal of British Studies. Their five-year term will begin July 1, 2023.
- Alexis M. Christensen, associate professor/lecturer of Classics in world languages & cultures, is starting a new archaeological field school – the Libarna Urban Landscapes Project (LULP) – in conjunction with Professor Katherine V. Huntley of Boise State University. The field school is an opportunity for students to get hands-on archaeological experience at the site of a Roman colony. Libarna (2nd century BCE - 5th century CE) was an important settlement in northwest Italy where Gallic, Etruscan and Roman cultures came into contact. In the summer of 2023, LULP will begin excavations exploring part of the city occupied by private houses and workshops.
January 2023
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Danielle Endres, professor of communication, quoted in Newsweek, “Putin’s Poseidon and the Radioactive Tidal Wave of Death.”
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Avery Holton, professor of communication, interviews on Fox 13, “Do You Know Who’s Writing your News?”
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Isabelle Freiling, assistant professor of communication, gave an invited talk, “Communicating science in a social media world: The risk of (not) intervening against “misinformation,” German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.
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Chrisoula Andreou, professor of philosophy, published “Choosing Well: The good, the bad, and the trivial” with Oxford University Press.
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Jeff McCarthy, director of Environmental Humanities, published an Op-Ed in the Salt Lake Tribune titled “The Climate Crisis and the Threat to Democracy.”
February 2023
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James Tabery, professor of philosophy, published “Victims of Eugenic Sterlisation in Utah: cohort demographics and estimate of living survivors,” in The Lancet Regional Health Americas, Feb. 15, 2023
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Cindi Textor, assistant professor of world languages and cultures, with co-translator Lee Soo Mi, published a volume of four novellas by Korean-Japanese author Lee Yangji. “Nabi T'aryŏng and Other Stories” is available from Seoul Selection as part of a series of English translations of Korean literature in diaspora.
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Joy Peirce, associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies, received the James McCune Award of Veneration at the U’s 2023 Black Faculty and Staff Awards.
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Rachel Griffin, associate professor of communication, received the Malcolm X Award of Social Justice at the U’s 2023 Black Faculty and Staff Awards
- David Roh, professor of English, was awarded an Honorable Mention in Litarary Studies by the Association for Asian American Studies for Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford)
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Blair Bateman, adjunct professor of world languages and cultures, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Foreign Language Association "in recognition of a lifetime of service to our profession, our students, and our multilingual world."
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Jackie Osherow, distinguished professor of English, published her ninth collection of poems, “Divine Ratios,” was published by LSU Press, Feb 15, 2023
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Chris Low, assistant professor of history, had the Turkish translation of his book, “Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj” (Columbia University Press, 2020), published by Telemak Kitap (Istanbul) in February 2023. It was the winner of the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Award.
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Chris Low, assistant professor of history, delivered the Paul A. and Marie Castelfranco Lecture for the Department of Religious Studies at University of California-Davis. The talk title was: "Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj."
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Jeff McCarthy, director of Environmental Humanities, presented a paper at the Conference on Environmental, Cultural, and Social Sustainability at the University of Ljubljana titled “The Climate, the Possibility, and the Environmental Humanities.”
March 2023
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Isabelle Freiling, published “Science and Ethics of “Curing” Misinformation,” in the AMA Journal of Ethics, March 2023
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Hugh Cagle, director of the International Studies program and associate professor of the history of science, won a fellowship at the National Humanities Center where, during the summer of 2023, he will be conducting research for his next book, an environmental history of the Brazilian Amazon.
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Jeff McCarthy, director of Environmental Humanities, edited the essay collection “The Anthropocene Ocean” along with USC law professor Robin Craig, and it will be published in March by the University of Utah Press.
June 2023
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Joy Pierce, associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies, was invited to give a workshop at The Qualitatives Annual [pre]Conference in conjunction with Couch-Stone Symposium in British Columbia, Canada.