Susan Sessions Rugh, Associate Professor

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History of travel and tourism in the US; history of rural America; history of the family

Susan Sessions Rugh (2007). "Conflict in the Countryside: Rural Communities in the 1840s Mormon War". Illinois Heritage.
Susan Sessions Rugh (2007). As Seen on TV: How kiddie Westerns invented the cowboy hero and modern merchandising. Convergence Magazine.
Susan Sessions Rugh (2006). Nineteenth-Century Americans. The Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia.
Susan Sessions Rugh (2006). Family and Kinship. The Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia.
Susan Sessions Rugh (2006). Branding Utah: Industrial Tourism in the Postwar American West. Western Historical Quarterly.
S.S. RUGH (2002). Civilizing the Countryside: Class, Gender and Crime in Nineteenth Century Rural Illinois. Agricultural History.
S.S. RUGH (2000). Awful Calamities Now Upon Us: The Civil War in Fountain Green, Illinois. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Mollie and Karl G. Butler Young Scholar Award in Western Studies, 2003-2006 Charles Redd Center 2003
Visiting Fellowship Institute for the Sudy of the American West, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles 2003
Camilla Eyring Kimball Endowment Award for Faculty Research BYU, College of Family, Home and Social Sciences 1997
Michael P. Malone Award for best article on state, provincial, or territorial history Western History Association 2007
Best Article in Utah History not published in Utah Historical Quarterly Utah State History 2007
Mayor's Award in the Humanities, Salt Lake County Utah Humanities Council 2006