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Provost James Paul Holloway and Senior Vice Provost Barbara Rodriguez at The University of New Mexico announced the appointment of Lloyd Lee as the new director of the Center for Regional Studies. He brings years of UNM faculty and leadership experience...

The Spanish arrived from Europe in what would eventually become the United States nearly 500 years ago and began to mix with indigenous people they met and conquered. Native Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, Caribbean islands, and...

Professor A. Gabriel Meléndez, director of the Center for Regional Studies since 2017, recently announced his retirement at the end of July after more than 26 years as a faculty member at The University of New Mexico. During his career, Meléndez accrued...

While examining how first-generation immigrant communities in New Mexico interact with long-standing northern New Mexican communities, Lillian Gorman found the convergence of cultures affected not only Spanish language use but also views on personal...

Recently, in an effort to support graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) awarded graduate degree completion awards to six...

The UNM Center for Regional Studies has welcomed Lillian Gorman as its Spring 2020 Visiting Scholar. Gorman is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona and serves as director of the Spanish as a...

The University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies hosts a lecture presented by Visiting Scholar Yolonda Youngs titled, “Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon” on Friday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. in the Frank Waters Room in Zimmerman Library....

Yolonda Youngs, an associate professor of Geography at Idaho State University, will carry out research this fall at The University of New Mexico as part of the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) Scholar-in-Residence initiative. Youngs will conduct...

Gabriel Meléndez, director of the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at The University of New Mexico, has announced that visiting scholars Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Tracy Brown will carry out research projects this summer at UNM through the center’s...

Daniel Webb, a visiting scholar at The University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies (CRS), has been awarded a Digital Collections Fellowship by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Culture and History for the digitization of archival...