News & Updates

Visit us at these upcoming conferences and events!


PECOS Conference, August 10 - 13, 2023 Flagstaff, AZ

Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference (RMAC), October 5 - 8, 2023 Laramie, WY

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:

Béatrice Szymkowiak won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her manuscript B/RDS.

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 .