Shiloh Green Soto was awarded supplemental funding from the WSU Office of Research to support a portion of the costs of a developmental editor for her first book project, The Community Engaged University: Benevolence, Silence, and Power at the Land-Grant Archives. Her manuscript addresses the paradox of the land-grant university which claims to value community engagement, but fails to reflect the lived experiences of historically marginalized communities in its archival collections. The manuscript is significant because it contributes to new insights in critical public history of the rural American West and builds a model for how to put the premise of the university land-grant mission into archival praxis: community-led archives, hands-on public history initiatives, and an applied history relationship with contemporary issues.