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
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...
Our awards portal had an error yesterday that closed it before the 11:59 PM deadline. We have opened it back up and will accept applications until noon tomorrow, Tuesday, March 16.
We’ve been made aware that an error caused the award applications to close at 12 AM instead of 11:59 PM. Please rest assured that we will accept your attempted applications! We will be working with the web team to decide the best way to resolve this first thing tomorrow.
03/12/2026
🚨EVENT TODAY at 11:00 MST🚨
ANDREW HUTTON will give our annual Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture & speak about his book, "The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West" (Dutton, Penguin Random Housel, 2025).
Paul Hutton - The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
03/02/2026
Less than 2 weeks left to apply for American West research and programming funding from the Redd Center! Please apply and SHARE SHARE SHARE!
The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!
PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.
We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.
https://tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards
03/02/2026
🚨New Episode Alert🚨
A conversation with writer George Frazier about grassland rivers, finding wild places, canoeing 1000s of miles, & his new book "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (University of Chicago Press 2025).
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