News & Updates

Visit us at these upcoming conferences and events!

Bears Ears Partnership presents Andrew Gulliford and Zak Podmore, October 12, 2023 at 6:00 pm Bears Ears Education Center

Great Basin Anthropological Conference (GBAC), October 18-21, 2023 Bend, OR

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion + Religious Research Association (SSSR + RRA), October 20 - 22, 2023 Salt Lake City, UT
 
Western History Association (WHA), October 25 - 28, 2023 Los Angeles, CA

Books and Authors in the News:

• The John Whitmer Historical Association nominated Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition edited by Christine Elyse Blythe, Christopher James Blythe and Jay Burton for their Best Anthology book prize.
  
  
• The Utah Division of State History granted Virginia Kerns the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Virginia Kerns won the scholarly nonfiction category for the WILLA awards from Women Writing the West for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Virginia Kerns won the Best Biography Award from Mormon History Association for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Do you want to peruse our Mormon History titles? Take a look at our Mormon Studies catalog here.

Press Prizes:

Sara Ellen Fowler won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her manuscript Two Signatures.

Thomas Bowen won the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize for his manuscript, On Desert Shores: Archaeology and History of the Western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of Mexico .