Rocky Mountain High
Omohundro Institute Fifteenth Annual Conference

Please join us in the heights of the Rocky Mountains for the Institute’s fifteenth annual conference, hosted by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, June 11–14, 2009. Panels range widely and promise to reward diverse interests. Reflect on Tom Paine’s views of empire and citizenship at the two hundredth anniversary of his death, or participate in a roundtable discussion on women in early America. Consider the development of the seventeenth-century Caribbean, or engage scholars of Native American sexuality. Sweep through panels on drinking and dreaming, rebellion and refinement, science and slavery. Embracing the conference’s location, join a distinguished panel to discuss the place of the trans-Mississippi West in early American history. Or attend a plenary session on the work and influence of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

The program committee has also organized excursions to satisfy the tourist in you. Take in the sharp peaks, wildflowers, and wildlife at Snowbird, ride mountain bikes along the Wasatch benches, or visit the world’s largest genealogical library (boasting more than three million microfilm and microfiche records, including rich resources for early American scholarship).

For their hard work and ingenuity, the Institute thanks the 2009 program committee: co-chairs Eric Hinderaker (University of Utah), Brett Rushforth (College of William and Mary), and Dee Andrews (California State University, East Bay); and committee members Virginia Anderson (University of Colorado), Juliana Barr (University of Florida), Christopher Hodson (Brigham Young University), Jenny Pulsipher (Brigham Young University), Vikki Vickers (Weber State University), and Neil York (Brigham Young University).

Brett Rushforth,
College of William and Mary, Program Co-Chair