Awards

Kent Alan Ono, professor of Communication at the University of Utah and second vice president of the National Communication Association, recently received NCA’s 2018 Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award.

The Western History Association's Autry Public History Prize was recently awarded to Travis Ross, doctoral student in the Department of History at the U, and his associates for an exhibit titled, "Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps.”

Doctoral alum José Ángel Maldonado’s dissertation, "Diana’s Confession: Precarious Rhetoric in Post-NAFTA Mexico," has been named the recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America’s Dissertation Award for 2018.

Hacking was presented with the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and European Languages (AATSEEL) 2017 Outstanding Contribution to the Profession award, at the President’s Reception and Awards Ceremony during AATSEEL’s annual conference in Washington DC.

Avery Holton, Noel Voltz, and Jeremy Rosen have all been selected for a 2018 National Humanities Center (NHC) Summer Fellowship.

Paisley Rekdal, Professor of English, was just named the new Utah Poet Laureate by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums.

Associate Professor of History Matt Basso is the state scholar for the Smithsonian Institution’s The Way We Worked, a Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibition.

The symposium was held Sept. 14-15, 2017 at the University of Cincinnati. Her talk was titled "Accounting for Scientific Attribution."