2024 CSBS Distinguished Alumni Awards Nominations

Dr. Alexandra Greenwald, assistant professor of Anthropology and curator of enthnography at the Natural History Museum of Utah, led a six-month initiative funded by the NEH's A More Perfect Union grant, employing Indigenous consultants to share oral histories and perspectives on ethnographic items, with the primary goal of centering Indigenous knowledge in the museum's collections and enhancing public education about Indigenous cultures.

U Geography professors Andrew Linke and Simon Brewer and grad student Matt Shawcroft's recently published research demonstrates how drier growing seasons are driving emigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

In a recent program of the Hinckley Institute Radio Hour, researchers from the Departments of Economics and Sociology discussed women in Utah's workforce, and the underlying social and institutional inequities present in our state.