Faculty & Staff - American West Center

	Director Paisley Rekdal paisley.rekdal@utah.edu Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and, most recently, West: A Translation. She is the editor and creator of the digital archive projects West, Mapping Literary Utah, and Mapping Salt Lake City. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. The former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah where she is a distinguished professor.
	Administrative Officer Michelle Judd 801-581-7611 michelle.judd@utah.edu
	Assistant Director John Flynn john.flynn@utah.edu Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History Subject area: Environmental History in the American West

	Patricia Albers Professor of Anthropology, Emerita Ph.D. University of Madison-Wisconsin Subject area: Native American History, women in the American West
	Elizabeth Archleta Associate Chair, Ethnic Stuies elizabeth.archuleta@utah.edu Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University Subject area: First generaton and historically underrepresented students in high education
	Maile Arvin Associate Professor of History & Gender Studies maile.arvin@utah.edu Ph.D. University of California, San Diego Subject area: Pacific Island Studies
	Matthew L. Basso Former AWC Director, Associate Professor, History matt.basso@utah.edu Ph.D. University of Minnesota Subject area: Gender Studies, Military History
	Edward Bateman Associate Professor, Art & Art History edward.bateman@utah.edu MFA University of Utah Subject area: Digital imaging, 3D modeling in photography
	Cynthia Benally Associate Professor, Education, Culture & Society u6014666@utah.edu Ed.D. Arizona State University Subject area: Edcucation policies, curriculum, and instruction of Native peoples and nations
	Brett Clark Professor, Environmental Humanities Graduate Program brett.clark@soc.utah.edu Ph.D. University of Oregon Subject area: Policital economy of global environmental change
	Elizabeth Clement Associate Professor, History elizabeth.clement@utah.edu Ph.D. Subject area: Gender Studies, History of HIV in Utah
	Danielle Endres Director, Environmental Humanities Graduate Program danelle.endres@utah.edu Ph.D. University of Washington Subject area: Environmental Studies, Indigenous American Rhetoric
	Marie Sarita Gaytan Associate Professor, Gender Studies & Sociology sarita.gaytan@soc.utah.edu Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz Subject area: Gender, Race & Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies
	Alexandra Merritt Greenwald Associate Professor, Anthropology u6025804@utah.edu Ph.D. UC Davis Subject area: Museum curation, Anthropology, Ethnography
	Ed. A. Munoz Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies u0890955@utah.edu Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Subject area: Latinx experience in the Midwest & Inter-Rocky Mountain Regions
	Andrew Nelson Chair, Film & Media Arts Department ap.nelson@utah.edu Ph.D. University of Exeter Subject area: American cinema, history & culture
	Darren Parry
	Wanda Pillow Professor, Gender Studies wanda.pillow@utah.edu Ph.D. Ohio State University Subject area: Feminist research methods, advanced feminist theory
	Paul Reeve Professor of History, Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies paul.reeve@utah.edu Ph.D. University of Utah Subject area: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint history
	Gregory E. Smoak Former AWC Director greg.smoak@utah.edu Ph.D. University of Utah Subject area: Native and environmental history of the American West, public lands policy
	Kehaulani Natsuko Vaughn Assistant Professor, Education, Culture & Society u6020319@utah.edu Ph.D. UC Riverside Subject area: Pacific Island History, Native American Studies
	Katharine S. Walter Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine katharine.walter@hsc.utah.edu Ph.D. Yale University Subject area: How climate change affects pathogen transmission and epidemiological dynamics in the American West
	Elizabeth Kronk Warner Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean, Professor of Law Office_of_the_Dean@LAW.UTAH.EDU J.D. Law, University of Michigan Law School Subject area: Environmental & Native American Law
	Kilo Zamora Lecturer, Gender Studies u0048082@utah.edu M.S. University of Utah Subject area: Gender Studies, Policies that protect marginalized people

	Tori Fairbanks Oral History transcriber, Social Media Specialist u1185183@utah.edu M.S. American Studies, Utah State University Subject area: National Park Service, Black History in the American West, Intermountain Indian School
	Megan Weiss Program Assistant, Utah Humanities megan.weiss@utah.edu Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History Subject area: History of the American West
	Nicholas Backman Research Associate, National Park Service Trails Project nicholas.backman@utah.edu Ph.D. Student, Department of History Subject area: Native American History, Environmental History
	Emma Webb Research Fellow, American West Center and Spencer S. Eccles Health Science Library emmawwebb@gmail.com M.A. Student, Department of History Subject area: American West history in the 19th and 20th centuries
	Kayla Kidd American West Center Intern

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