New graduate student Reid Haugen won an award for a paper he wrote during his undergraduate studies. Click this link for the news announcement and this one for the award overview.
Reid in the field!
Reid’s summary of the paper is as follows:
The study was about a foundation in Historic Nauvoo, Nauvoo, IL. Nauvoo is an important town in Mormon history as it was where Joseph Smith lived when he was killed. From there, the church split into its two main sects. It’s also a living history site with all of the staff and most of the visitors belonging to the Latter Day Saints church. Electrical resistivity surveys were conducted in June 2024, and the paper is about the results of those surveys. Resistivity surveys were conducted on the property of former community member Henry Wilcox. The results of the surveys found several rectangular anomalies that are assumed to be buried foundations. LDS archaeology is usually kept strictly to LDS church members, so it’s not likely that I’ll be involved further with any future projects, as I’m not Mormon. However, this site and buried foundation could be reconstructed like the RLDS did with some parts of Nauvoo into a historically accurate home. Currently Nauvoo is somewhat reconstructed and acts as a living history site. In the paper, I also go into a little bit of detail on how after the LDS bought historic Nauvoo from the RLDS they wiped out any non-Mormon history from the town, going into the “who
Reid in the field!
controls the past” question.