Matthew Basso is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies and History. His research interests include the theory and history of masculinity, labor and working-class history, the history of old age, the history of race and ethnicity, the relationship of the military to society, U.S. Western history, the history of Pacific settler societies and transnational history. His work appears in traditional books and articles, and in community-focused projects like the construction of digital archives, the development of oral history projects, and the production of K-12 curriculum materials. He is the author of Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front, winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award and the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. He’s also the co-author of a K-12 textbook entitled We Shall Remain: A Native History of Utah and America. We Shall Remain is part of a larger initiative, the Utah Indian Curriculum Project (UICP), which also includes the Utah American Indian Digital Archive, a 50,000-page digital archive. UICP won the Western History Association’s Autry Public History Prize, the American Association of State and Local History’s Award of Merit, and National Council on Public History’s Project of the Year-Honorable Mention. He has worked the Smithsonian Institution, Utah Humanities, and museums across the state to illuminate the history of work in Utah and is currently assisting the National Park Service to amplify their coverage of the World War II home front.