BYU Redd Center for Western Studies

BYU Redd Center for Western Studies The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies was created in 1972 when area and ethnic studies were expanding across the United States.

Founded in 1972, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies promotes the study of the Intermountain American West by funding scholarship, public programming, and teaching, and supporting work in any discipline that explores the region in all its facets. New areas of study included Mormon, women’s, African American, Chicano, and Native American studies. Scholars interested in those fields created

new professional organizations, journals and conferences. To support these new areas of study, universities established research centers. In this climate, several history professors approached the administration at Brigham Young University and proposed a research center that would promote and enhance western studies on the campus.

Congratulations to Brenden Rensink , who was honored today by the BYU College of Family Home and Social Sciences with a ...
08/27/2026

Congratulations to Brenden Rensink , who was honored today by the BYU College of Family Home and Social Sciences with a Public Scholarship Award in recognition of his work at the BYU Redd Center for Western Studies, hosting the Writing Westward Podcast, & managing the Intermountain Histories digital public history project.

Last month the Mormon History Association honored the Redd Center with a Thomas Alexander Special Citation award in reco...
07/29/2026

Last month the Mormon History Association honored the Redd Center with a Thomas Alexander Special Citation award in recognition of the fine work those at the Center have done over the past 54 years and their support of the MHA.

It’s a wonderful coincidence that the citation is named in honor Thomas Alexander, who has been associated with the Redd Center since its founding—Asst/Assoc Director from 1972-1980, Director from 1980-1992, and holder of the Lemuel Harrison Redd Jr. Chair in Western History from 1992-2004. Tom continues to serve on our advisory board and his institutional knowledge and insight (and humor) are invaluable to us!

07/10/2026

We have 2 amazing public lectures for you to put on your calendars for Fall 2026. Both will be open to the public in-person and should stream online on our youtube channel. Click through to the individual events below to mark your interest/attendance and receive location/detail notifications later this summer.

Oct 1 - Nicolas Rosenthal - Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century

Nov 12 - Flannery Burke - Men of Western Letters Back East

Flannery Burke BYU College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences BYU Department of History BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications BYU American Indian Studies BYU English Department

06/16/2026

🚨New Episode Alert🚨

On LA surf culture history w/ Prof. Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University) & her award-winning "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) 2024).

Link below ⬇️

05/08/2026

🚨New Episode Alert🚨

We talk the housing crisis blues in Bend, Oregon and beyond with reporter Jonathan Bach (The Oregonian) and his book "High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West" (Oregon State University Press 2025).

⬇️Link in Comment Below⬇️

The latest (Redd Center-supported) work from Fred E. Woods, a documentary on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ o...
04/27/2026

The latest (Redd Center-supported) work from Fred E. Woods, a documentary on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denver, is now viewable on BYU TV. It even features our own Redd Center Director Jay H. Buckley!

A historical documentary exploring what matters most to members of the Church in Denver, Colorado.

04/24/2026

Word on the street is that Redd Center awards will be announced on Monday…

*watch this feed*

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