USU Uintah Basin Lecturer Named Department Lecturer of the Year
John Barton, principal lecturer at USU Uintah Basin, has been named the USU Department of History’s Lecturer of the Year.
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Program Highlight
'Saving Europe' with Tammy Proctor on Utah Public Radio's Access Utah
Tom Williams, host of Access Utah, sat down to talk with Dr. Tammy Proctor about the release of her new book Saving Europe: First World War Relief and American Identity. Dr. Proctor discusses the emergence of new American identities, and the role America played in Europe after World War I. You can listen to this interview in full at upr.org/podcast/access-utah.
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Dangerous Love and the Search for Peace at USU
What does it mean to practice “dangerous love”? On Friday, Nov. 22, Utah State University’s Heravi Peace Institute hosted its first workshop on this topic, led by conflict resolution expert and Associate Professor Chad Ford.
Paving the Future: Assistant Professor Amanda Katz on the Intersection of History and Roadway Engineering
Amanda Katz is an assistant professor of U.S. History, specializing in science, technology, and environment. Within these fields, she focuses on rural and municipal infrastructure, transportation equity, and historical continuities among interconnected gl...
History Professor Honored as Inaugural Scout Award Recipient
Tammy M. Proctor, distinguished professor of history at Utah State University, is an inaugural recipient of the Hillcourt Silver Medal.
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