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Podcast: Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
Episode: Brenden Rensink, Mobile App “Intermountain Histories,” Podcast “Writing Westward" (Season 1, Episode 9 - Part 1)
Description: Guest BioBrenden Rensink is one of Utah’s brightest and most digitally savvy young historians. A true scholar at heart; he understand nonetheless how and why scholarly products--studies, books, presentations, etc.--need to make their way into the everyday life and interests of the general public. An historian of the North American West (borderlands, indigenous peoples, public history, and Western wilderness and the environment), Rensink earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He spent his early life in the Pacific Northwest. He is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for W...