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Brian Q. Cannon <brian_cannon@byu.edu> Brigham Young University I am working on a book on agricultural settlement and homesteading on western reclamation projects in the 1940s and 1950s. |
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Address: | 403 KMB, History Dept. Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 United States |
Primary Phone: | 801 422-5211 |
List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Water |
Interests: | American History / Studies Oral History |
Bio: BRIAN Q. CANNON Associate Professor of History Brigham Young University Work: Home: Department of History 1445 East 700 South Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84606 Provo, UT 84602 (801) 374-0448 (801) 422-5211 FAX (801) 422-0275 e-mail: brian_cannon@byu.edu PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2003 Director, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Brigham Young University 1998-2003 Associate Professor of History Brigham Young University 1992-98 Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University 1993-2002 Associate Editor, BYU Studies 2003 Executive Committee, Mormon History Association 2002-2003 Executive Committee, Agricultural History Society 1998-2000 Editorial Board, Agricultural History 1990-91 Woodrow Wilson Rural Policy Research Fellow EDUCATION Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, Department of History Major: American History-Twentieth Century U.S., Rural U.S., and the American West Minor: Cultural and Historical Geography Supplemental Skills: Quantitative Methodology, French May 1992 M.A. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, Department of History June 1986 B.A. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Major: American Studies April 1984, summa cum laude and University Honors, College of Humanities Valedictorian ACADEMIC HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS 2001 James Madison Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government, for the Best Article on the History of the Federal Government published in 2000 2000 Oscar O. Winther Award, Western History Association, for the Best Article Published in Western Historical Quarterly in 2000 2000-2002 Alcuin Teaching Fellow, Brigham Young University, for Significant Contributions to General Education and Honors Curriculum 2000 T. Edgar Lyon Award, Mormon History Association, for the Best Article in 1999 in Mormon History 1997 Vernon Carstensen Award, Agricultural History Society, for the Best Article Published in Agricultural History in 1996 1995 Charles Redd Center for Western Studies - Summer Research Fellowship 1993 Phi Alpha Theta/Westerners International Dissertation Award – Best Doctoral Dissertation in Western American History 1990-91 Woodrow Wilson Rural Fellowship, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and the Ford Foundation 1989 Everett Edwards Award, Agricultural History Society 1989-90 Walter Rundell Award for Graduate Study, Western History Association 1989 Charles Redd Center Fellowship in Western American History, Brigham Young University 1988 Nora Eccles Harrison guest Lecturer, Utah State University Museum of Art 1986-87 Dr. John M. Pine Memorial Scholarship, Phi Alpha Theta National Council 1984-86 Western History Association Editorial Fellowship, Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University 1984 Karl G. Snow Award, Brigham Young University (best undergraduate paper in history) 1984 Valedictorian, Brigham Young University College of Humanities 1983 Phi Alpha Theta 1983 Phi Kappa Phi 1983 LeRoy R. Hafen Award for work in western U.S. History, Brigham Young University 1979-84 Trustees’ Scholar, Brigham Young University SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Remaking the Agrarian Dream: The New Deal’s Rural Resettlement Program in the Mountain West (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996). “Homesteading,” Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World (London: Sage Reference, 2003). 601-602. “Scandalous Film: The Campaign to Suppress Anti-Mormon Motion Pictures, 1911-1912,” co-authored with Jacob Olmstead, Journal of Mormon History (forthcoming 2003). “Oxen to Organs: Chattel Credit in Springdale Town, 1849-1900,” co-authored with Allan G. Bogue and Kenneth J. Winkle, Agriculture History (forthcoming Summer 2003). “‘Experimenting with the Human and Economic Phases of Agriculture’: Casa Grande Valley Farms,” Encyclopedia of rhte Great Depression (New York: MacMillan, forthcoming 2003). “‘What a Power We Will Be in This Land’: The LDS Church, the Church Security Program and the New Deal,” Journal of the West (forthcoming 2003). “‘Taft Has Made a Good President’: Mormons and Politics in the Election of 1912,” in Times of Transition (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, forthcoming 2003). “Farms for Veterans: Reclamation Settlement Policies and Results Following the World Wars,” Bureau of Reclamation History Symposium Papers (Denver: Bureau of Reclamation, 2003), CD publication. “Water and Economic Opportunity: Homesteaders, Speculators, and the U.S. Reclamation Service, 1904-1924,” Agricultural History 76 (Spring 2002):188-207. “Power Relations: Western Rural Electric Cooperatives and the New Deal,” Western Historical Quarterly, XXXI (Summer 2000):133-60. “The Best Years of Their Lives? Wives and Mothers on Western Homesteads in the Postwar Years,” Agricultural History, 74(Spring 2000):451-64. “Mormons and the New Deal: The 1936 Presidential Election in Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly (Winter 1999):4-22. “Adopted or Indentured, 1850-1870: Native Children in Mormon Households,” in Ronald W. Walker and Doris R. Dant, eds., Nearly Everything Imaginable: The Everyday Life of Utah’s Mormn Pioneers (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1999):341-57. “‘We are Now Entering a New Era’: Federal Reclamation and the Fact Finding Commission of 1923-24,” Pacific Historical Review, LXVI (May 1997):185-211. “Indenture and Adoption of Native American Children by Mormons on the Utah Fronter, 1850-1870,” co-authored with Richard D. Kitchen, Common Frontiers: Proceedings of the 1996 Conference and Annual Meeting, (North Bloomfield, OH: Association for Living History Farms and Agricultural Musuems, 1997):131-44. “Keeping Their Instructions Straight: Implementing the Rural Resettlement Program in the West,” Agricultural History, 70 (Winter 1996):251-67. “Priesthood Restoration Documents,” BYU Studies,35 (Number 4, 1996):162-73. “‘Keep on a-goin’: Life and Social Interaction in a New Deal Farm Labor Camp,” Agricultural History, 70 (Winter 1996):1-32. “The Sego Lily: Utah’s State Flower,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 63 (Winter 1995):70-84. |