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Charles Redd for Western Studies

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Lectures

Nicholas Rosenthal: "Painting Native America"

11:00 AM
Thursday, October 01
Nicholas G. Rosenthal, professor and chair of history at Loyola Marymount University, discusses his latest book, Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century.
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Lectures

Flannery Burke: "Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region"

11:00 AM
Thursday, November 12
Flannery Burke, professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University discusses her latest book Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region.
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Experience Points

Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture: Paul Hutton

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thursday, March 12
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
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Experience Points

William Howard & Hazel Butler Peters Lecture

11:00 AM
Thursday, November 20
Amy Kohout Associate Professor of History, Colorado College Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers
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Experience Points

Ronald and Nelani Walker Lecture

11:00 AM
Thursday, November 06
Yolonda Youngs Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, CSU San Bernadino Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon - Ronald and Nelani Walker Lecture
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News

Brian Q. Cannon named to Prestigious BYU Chair in Western American History

Jordan Karpowitz
By Jordan Karpowitz
July 09, 2025 11:34 AM
Laura Padilla-Walker, dean of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, and Jay H. Buckley, director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, are pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Q. Cannon, professor of history at BYU, to the Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr., Chair in Western American History at Brigham Young University. His initial three-year term began July 1.
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Experience Points

"First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming"

11:00 AM
Thursday, January 23
Steven R. Simms, professor emeritus of anthropology at USU, will present a story of over 700 generations of Indigenous Americans in a cultural landscape centered on the Great Salt Lake.
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