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MARTHA BRADLEY

Adjunct Professor

Management

  • Adjunct Professor
    Management

BIO

Dr. Martha Bradley-Evans is a professor in the College of Architecture + Planning who teaches history and theory classes. Between 2002 and 2011, Dr. Bradley served as the Dean of the Honors College and in July 2011 became the Senior Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies. An award winning teacher, Bradley is the recipient of the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award, the University Professorship, the Student Choice Excellence in Teaching Award, the Bennion Center Service Learning Professorship, the Distinguished Honors Teaching Award, the Park Fellowship and the Borchard Fellowship. In 2008, she received the Honorary AIA Award from AIA Utah. She was the vice chair of the Utah State Board of History and chair of the Utah Heritage Foundation. Her books include: Kidnapped from that Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists; The Four Zinas: Mothers and Daughters on the Frontier; and Pedastals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority and Equal Rights; Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839-1844 among numerous others.Her most recent work on spatial religious communities maps the distinctive patterns, meanings and practices of communal religious groups such as the Branch Davidians, the FLDS, the Latter-day Saints, the Oneida, the Shakers and Adidam as they imagine and construct spatial worlds. Her past scholarship has been in three main areas: Public History, Gender and Community, and Religious Community.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Adjunct Professor
    Management1 Jul 2018 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Visiting Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, School of Architecture3 Jan 1994 - 30 Jun 1997
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, School of Architecture1 Jul 1997 - 30 Jun 1999
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
    University of Utah, School of Architecture1 Jul 1999 - 30 Jun 2001
  • Associate Professor
    University of Utah, School of Architecture1 Jul 2001 - 30 Jun 2006
  • Professor
    University of Utah, School of Architecture1 Jul 2006 - 30 Jun 2008
  • Adjunct Instructor
    University of Utah, Management1 Sep 2017 - 30 Jun 2018
  • Professor
    University of Utah, School of Architecture1 Jul 2008 - 31 Jul 2023

LANGUAGES

  • French