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
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).
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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).
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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!
Denver Latter-day Saints and Their Neighbors - BYUtv A historical documentary exploring what matters most to members of the Church in Denver, Colorado.
04/27/2026
Congrats to our annual awards and grants winners!
It was as competitive a field as ever and we're thrilled by the exciting work being proposed. See the full list at the link below.
Please share and congratulate (& tag) any friends and colleagues you see!
https://reddcenter.byu.edu/0000019d-cfe9-d2bd-a7df-ffef60fc0001/2026-award-recipients
Word on the street is that Redd Center awards will be announced on Monday…
*watch this feed*
04/03/2026
085 - David-James Gonzales - Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with historian David-James Gonzales about their book, Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California (Oxford University Press, 2025). David-James Gonzales is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young Un...