USU History Department Names 2025 Norm Jones Faculty Fellow
Susan M. Cogan, associate professor in Utah State University’s Department of History, has been named the 2025 Norm Jones Faculty Fellow.
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USU History Department Names 2025 Norm Jones Faculty Fellow
Susan M. Cogan, associate professor in Utah State University’s Department of History, has been named the 2025 Norm Jones Faculty Fellow. Cogan is a scholar of early modern European history who has won fellowships from Cambridge University, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Huntington Library. Her 2021 book, “Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence,” analyzes the intersections of gender and religion in early modern England and earned an Honorable Mention from the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.
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