Faculty Research

W. Paul Reeve, professor of History and Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies, and co-authors Christopher Rich and LaJean Purcell Carruth, were recently awarded the Utah Historical Society’s Best Book in Utah History for "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah."

The College of Humanities’ illuminating Lightning Talks series offers fast-paced presentations of research spanning languages, regions, and eras. In sharp 15-minute sessions, each built around a single image or artifact, new faculty and postdoctoral fellows brought their scholarship to life for the wider University of Utah community.

Jenny Andrus, professor and chair of the Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies, was featured at a Domestic Violence Awareness Rally at the Utah State Capitol earlier this week. In Andrus' recent research on domestic violence, she listened to dozens of domestic violence survivors and their stories about why they stayed or left.