Lectureship
The Aspinall Lectureship in History and Political Science has developed into a significant competition with numerous applicants recognized as national authorities in their fields.
It is with pleasure that the Foundation, with Colorado Mesa University, is able to sponsor a free lecture to the public.
7 pm, April 10, 2024, University Center Ballroom
Captivity and Cosmology in the Indigenous Intermountain West
About the 2024 Aspinall Lecturer 
Dr. Seth Archer is an Associate Professor of History at Utah State University and a cultural and environmental historian of North America. He is the author of Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawaiʻi, 1778–1855 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. A recent article on the 1830s federal vaccination campaign in Indian Country appeared in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. His new research concerns captivity in the nineteenth-century Intermountain West.
Aspinall Course
The Indigenous Intermountain West to 1900
This course will explore one of the least well-understood regions of Native North America, with particular focus on the dynamic period stretching from the late-eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth. Over the course of nine sessions, students will take in mini-lectures, discuss primary- and secondary-source readings, and write three brief response papers. In week three, we will construct a lesson and supplemental readings, as a group, for the one-semester Colorado history course mandated by the state.
April 8-26, MWF 3:00-4:30 pm
1 credit hour
SOCI 396, CRN 45967
Scholarships
Each year, applicants from CMU's Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences with a 3.0 GPA or higher are interviewed by the Aspinall Foundation Board for scholarships. For academic year 2024-2025, the Wayne N. Aspinall Award will be between $7,000 and $8,000. The Charles Traylor Award will be between $6,000 and $7,000. In addition, two Aspinall Scholarships will be awarded between $4,000 and $5,000.
Please note that Aspinall scholarships are considered and awarded separately from CMU's general scholarship application. Applicants must submit a separate application, available below. The due date is February 1st, 2024.