Brenden W. Rensink

Historian of the North American West, Borderlands, Indigenous Peoples, and Environment

Misc

Professional Service, Awards, Honors and Miscellanea

 

Professional Service:

CURRENT:

  • 2022-present
    • Board Member, Utah Valley Historical Society
  • 2021-present
    • Book Award Committee Member, Utah State Historical Society
    • Organizing Committee Member, Biennial Conference of Science & Management of the Colorado Plateau
  • 2019-present
    • Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Arizona History
  • 2015-present
    • Judge, Utah State History Day
  • 2013-present
    • Affiliate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska

PAST

  • 2022
    • Arizona Humanities Site Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • 2020-21
    • Dwight L. Smith Award Committee Chair, Western History Association
  • 2019-22
    • Membership Committee Chair, Western History Association
  • 2019-20
    • Book Award Committee Chair, Mormon History Association
  • 2019
    • Local Arrangements Committee Member, National Council on Public History
  • 2018-19
    • Membership Committee Member, Western History Association
  • 2018-19
    • Dwight L. Smith Award Committee Member, Western History Association
  • 2017-19
    • Book Award Committee Member, Utah State Historical Society
    • Book Award Committee Member, Mormon History Association
  • 2014
    • Judge, Phi Alpha Theta Wyoming Regional Conference, University of Wyoming
  • 2013-14
    • Annual Conference Program Committee Member, Western History Association
  • 2013-15
    • Michael P. Malone Award Committee Member, Western History Association
  • 2012-13
    • Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska
  • 2008-09
    • President, UNL History Graduate Student Association
  • 2006-08
    • Senator, Graduate Student Association, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Scholarly MSS Referee, and Grant, Fellowship and External Program Reviews:

  •  Oxford University Press
  • University of Oklahoma Press
  • Texas A&M University Press
  • Western Historical Quarterly
  • Journal of American History, Organization of American Historians
  • University of Utah Press
  • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • University of Ottawa, Faculty of Arts
  • International Indigenous Policy Journal
  • Wadsworth / Cengage Learning, Higher Education
  • Flat World Knowledge
  • Routledge Press, Taylor and Francis Group
  • Undergraduate Research Journal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
  • Folklore: Journal of The Folklore Society

Grants, Fellowships and Assistantships:

  • 2020-22
    • Marjorie Pay Hinckley Young Scholar Award, Brigham Young University
  •  2009-10
    • Addison Sheldon Fellowship, UNL Department of History.
  • 2008
    • Grant-in-Aid Research Fellowship, Center for Great Plains Studies.
    • Barnes Fund Research Travel Grant, UNL Department of History.
    • Graduate Studies Research Fellowship, UNL College of Graduate Studies.
  • 2006-07
    • Research Assistantship, UNL Bureau for Sociological Research
  • 2005-06
    • Teaching Assistantship, UNL Department of History.
  • 2005
    • Fellow, Colonial Williamsburg Summer Teacher Institute.
  • 2004-05
    • Research Assistantship, UNL College of Education
  • 2004
    • Research Assistantship, UNL Department of History
  • 2004-10
    • Graduate Nonresident Fellowship, UNL College of Graduate Studies

 Awards and Honors:

  • 2020-22
    • Marjorie Pay Hinckley Young Scholar Award, Brigham Young University
  • 2020
    • Metcalfe Best Anthology Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association
  •  2019
    • 2019 Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction Book for Native but Foreign, Western Writers of America
    • Great Plains Book of the Month (January 2019) for Native but Foreign, Center for Great Plains Studies
  • 2009
    • Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, Western History Association.
    • Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, Northern Great Plains History Conference.
    • University Libraries Influence Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.
  • 2008
    • Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, UNL Teaching Council and Parents Association
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