Professor of the Year, Westminster College, 1979, 1987, 1997, 1999-2000
Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, Westminster College, 1981-1982.
Recipient, Weyher Foundation Research Grant, 1985.
Speaker's Bureau, Utah Endowment for the Humanities (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities), 1987-1989.
Recipient, Weyher Foundation Research Grant, 1989.
Recipient, Sears Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership, 1991
National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Proposal Evaluator, Division of Archives and Libraries, Washington, D.C. April, 1992
Sabbatical Leave, winter semester, 1994 and 2007
Finalist, Gore Award for Excellence in Teaching, spring, 1994
National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Proposal Evaluator, Division of Archives and Libraries, Washington, D.C., November, 1994, 1998, 2007
Recipient, Gore Award for Excellence in Teaching, spring, 1995
Resident Scholar, "Choices for the Twenty- First Century," A National Endowment for the Humanities Library Program, Park City, Utah, October, 1995; September-October, 1996, April 1998
Recipient, Weyher Foundation Research Grant, summer, 1996
Recipient, Gore Grant for Professional Development, 1998
Recipient, Westminster Faculty/Student Publicaton Research Grant, 2010
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Mexican Collection: Finding Aids to the Microfilmed Manuscript Collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah, (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978).
Jesuit Social Services in Colonial Mexico: The Archbishopric of Valladolid, PhD Dissertation, University Microfilms (1982).
"The Real Columbus?" SALT LAKE CITY MAGAZINE, Sept./Oct.1992
Western Social Science Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Jesuit Colegios of Michoacan: The Price of Expulsion," April, 1983.
Women in Business Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah: "An Advanced Degree: Is It Worth the Price?," April, 1984.
Feature presentation, PM Magazine News Program, March 1984.
Men's Correctional Facility, Point of the Mountain, Utah: "Vietnam: A Cold War Conflict," September, 1988.
Tooele Historical Society, Tooele, Utah: Central America Today: The Colonial Legacy," October, 1988.
Feature Story, "From the Occult to the King," Salt Lake Tribune, 9 September, 1992
KTKK Radio Interview: Popular Culture, 10 September, 1992
KTKK Radio Interview: The Columbian Quincentennial, 12 October, 1992
Interview, Fox 13 Nightly News, "The Quincentennial," 12 October, 1992;
Popular Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pa. April, 1995: "Rhythm and Blues Unites All Hues"
Interview, Campus News, Like Elvis, Cottlers Royalty is Made Known , April 16, 1997
Elvisly Yours, (documentary), Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1997
KUTV, Take Two, television interview with Rod Decker, August, 1997; Nightly news interview, The Elvis Phenomenon, January 1998.
Interview, National Public Radio, October 4, 1997
Interview, Fox 13 News, The Elvis Phenomenon, January 1998
Better Days, Presentation of documentary, Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, Ca. 1999.
Television Interviews, KUTV and KSL: The Death of George Harrison, December 1, 2001
Guest Speaker, Key Bank Diversity Lecture Series, Westminster College, B. Springsteens Born in the USA: An Analysis of Class Antagonism, September 25, 2002
Television interviews, , KSL and KTVX: Remembering Elvis August 16, 2002
Guest Speaker, Southern Utah Sate University, International Week, 2002: Cuba: From Colony to Communism, 6 November, 2002
No Surrender: A Fenway Almanac, paper presenatation, Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, Tx, 2004.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards: History Professors Extraordinaire, paper presentation, Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego Ca, 2005.
Published in Lenentman, S. ed., Popular Culture: History and Teaching, Cambridge: University Scholars Press, 2007.
The Juke Joint, novel, by Susan Cottler and Susan Gunter, 2010.
