Research News

Colleen McDannell, Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies, investigates the role of women in founding hospitals in Utah, reflecting on the disparate fates on Holy Cross Hospital and Deseret Hospital in Salt Lake City.

An initiative in the College of Humanities in its second year, the Lightning Talks series invites early-career faculty and postdoctoral fellows to share their research in a quick, 15-minute presentation organized around a single image or artifact of their choosing.

In Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial, Chrisoula Andreou, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, highlights the challenges of making effective choices.

Rone Shavers, Associate Professor in the Department of English, provides a definition of the term 'Afrofuturism'.

Elizabeth Callaway, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, and Rebekah Cummings, MLIS, Director of Digital Matters at the Marriott Library, have received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to hold a three-week Summer Institute for Higher Education at the University of Utah.

Dr. Sonca Vo, postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Linguistics, paves the way for more comprehensive and fair language assessments by advocating for a more holistic approach.

Stories of a “floating world.” Professor Scott Black, Department of English, discusses his newly published article, “Saikaku’s Evanescence.”

In an occasional series on archival stories, Isabel Dulfano, Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, discusses her experiences working in the San Cristobal de las Casas archives this summer.

Looking back on the Spring 2024 semester, it’s easy to celebrate the remarkable achievements of this year’s Humanities Scholars and the opportunities the program provides.

Professor Leslie Francis (Department of Philosophy and School of Law) and Political Science Professor John Francis publish new book entitled "States of Health: The Ethics and Consequences of Policy Variation in a Federal System."

The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah hosted a talk with Danielle Endres, professor of communication and director of the U’s Environmental Humanities program. Endres discussed her new book Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting, which details the activism of the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Goshute people against establishing nuclear waste repositories on Indigenous land.