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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: Emilia Nilsson Garip
“I started diving when I was seven. I joined Sweden’s national team at a very young age and that experience helped me connect with people from around the world. I made friends from other countries, and I looked forward to competitions and the opportunities it gave me to connect with those friends."
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The University of Utah represented in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
As the sporting world turns its attention to the 2024 Summer Olympics, the University of Utah is proud to announce that several alumni and one current student will be competing on the global stage.
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Get to Know Dr. Devin Jenkins
L2TReC has a new director! As of July 1, 2024, Dr. Devin Jenkins has assumed duties as Director of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center.
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Humanities Scholar Spotlight | Lucy Christensen
Learn how being a Humanities Scholar impacted Lucy Christensen's first year at the University of Utah.
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Humanities Scholars' Spring 2024 Research
Looking back on the Spring 2024 semester, it’s easy to celebrate the remarkable achievements of this year’s Humanities Scholars and the opportunities the program provides.
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Humans of the U: Eliza Stewart
“I had many family members who went to the U and growing up, I was always intrigued by what they would tell me about the school’s programs. I was drawn to the outdoor community at the U, as well as the university’s culture.
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Humans of the U: Gene Fitzgerald
“I retired from the University of Utah in 2008 and the next year I started teaching Russian literature courses as part of the U’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which provides educational opportunities for adults ages 50 and older.
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Humanities Alumni Homecoming Social & Speaker
Humanities alumni—this night is for you! Join us to reconnect with fellow College of Humanities graduates, faculty, and staff at Squatters Salt Lake City. Thursday, September 26, 2024
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Remembering Bruce Bastian
Bruce Bastian was a longtime supporter of the Tanner Humanities Center and his partnership was instrumental in furthering the center’s mission to provide public outreach and educational enrichment to the University campus and the broader community.
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Humanities Scholar Spotlight | Beverly Cheung
Learn how being a Humanities Scholar impacted Beverly Cheung's first year at the University of Utah.
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Humanities Scholar Spotlight | Vanessa Patzner
Learn how being a Humanities Scholar impacted Vanessa Patzner's first year at the University of Utah.
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Department of Communication hosted the annual Doctoral Honors Seminar in partnership with the NCA
The Department of Communication at the University of Utah hosted the annual Doctoral Honors Seminar in partnership with the National Communication Association.
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Leslie and John Francis Publish Their New Book "States of Health"
Professor Leslie Francis (Department of Philosophy and School of Law) and Political Science Professor John Francis publish new book entitled "States of Health: The Ethics and Consequences of Policy Variation in a Federal System."
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Utah Prison Education Project admits first degree-seeking students
Students in the women’s unit of the Utah State Correctional Facility will pursue a Bachelor of University Studies (BUS) and a certificate in professional and technical writing. Both programs are offered through the College of Humanities.
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Humans of the U: Lauren Jackman
There are so many cool classes at the U. The classes I’ve taken have taught me so much and really helped me become a better person. I am so glad I chose to major in writing and rhetoric...
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Humans of the U: Desi Crane
I am a junior studying international relations and environmental studies. I actually started out as a geology major, but I found environmental studies is a better fit for the things that I want to do.
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Poetry from Humanities Writers to be Cemented in Time
Three poets from the University of Utah’s College of Humanities will have their poetry imprinted in new sidewalks throughout the capital city after being selected for a new public art project, Senses of Salt Lake City.
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Spring 2024 : Research Student Spotlights and Awards
College of Humanities research students at the University of Utah presenting there research in spring of 2024.
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2024 College of Humanities Student Awards
Meet the University of Utah, College of Humanities student speaker, outstanding senior, and humanities excellence awardees.
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2024 Distinguished Alumni Awarded to Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight, veteran chief marketing officer, has been selected for the University of Utah’s College of Humanities Distinguished Alumni Award. Knight, who received a Bachelor of Arts degree in international and area studies in 2006, cut his teeth as an early employee of Facebook, Pinterest, and Compass.
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.