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
Title still to be announced
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 1-26, MWF 3:00-4:30 pm
1 credit hour
SOCI 396, CRN 45888
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. At present, the Wayne N. Aspinall Award is $10,000. The Charles Traylor Award is $9,000. In addition, two Aspinall Scholarships are awarded for $7,000.
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.