The UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) has been awarded a Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. LAII will receive $978,784 toward student fellowships over the next four years to promote...
Ajla Škrbić, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Law, Freie Universität, Berlin, will present The University of New Mexico Department of History’s Women’s History Lecture on “Gender, Power and Violence: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence...
Frances Hayashida, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico is co-editor of a new publication Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes published...
Ana Alonso-Minutti, associate professor of Music and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the biennial 2021 Robert M. Stevenson Prize from The Society for Ethnomusicology for...
The University of New Mexico's Latin American and Iberian Institute's Fall 2021 event series kicks off with a presentation by author Benjamin T. Smith with a lecture on his new book, The Dope: The True Story of the Mexican Drug Trade.
The virtual event...
Associate Professor Anna Nogar of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico and UNM Mexico Studies Chair Lorena Ojeda-Dávila, professor at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, recently collaborated on a...
Three researchers at The University of New Mexico, including two affiliated faculty at the Latin American & Iberian Institute, were awarded a five-year National Science Foundation grant to develop and test a bilingual computer programming curricula into...
The Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico has announced its Fall 2020 Im/migration and Human Rights Series, co-sponsored by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, and El...
The LAII has announced the appointment of Dr. Frances Hayashida as Director of the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII). Hayashida brings to the LAII a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching on Latin America in the field of Archaeology,...
The Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) at The University of New Mexico recently announced Dr. Lorena Ojeda Dávila as its second-ever Mexico Studies Chair.
This position was jointly established by UNM and the Fulbright-García Robles program as...