Faculty Experts

Meriah Heredia-Griego is the director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR). Heredia-Griego works closely with the Division of Equity and Inclusion and is a senior fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ...

Peter Kierst is a senior lecturer in political science who teaches Constitutional Law and theory.  He joined the political science faculty full-time in 2005 after teaching these subjects for many years part-time. Kierst was a trial lawyer in New ...

A UNM faculty member since 1986, Professor Christine Sierra teaches and researches in the field of American politics with a focus on race, ethnicity, and gender.   Her publications include work on Mexican American activism on immigration policy,...

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a research professor and coordinator of National Security Programs at UNM. Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a National Intelligence Council Associate and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since ...

Biography Nancy López is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico  López directs and co-founded the Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice, RWJF Center for Health Policy, which is in the process of creating a ...

Research interests include teacher inquiry and practitioner research, K-12 school/university partnerships, and curriculum and instruction in K-12 settings.   She teaches undergraduate and graduate teacher education classes Her research emphasis is...

Since he was a boy growing up on the border of Texas and Mexico, Eliseo Torres, known to everyone as “Cheo,” has been fascinated by the folk traditions and folkways of Mexico and of his Mexican American roots. 

Professor Lonna Atkeson is a Regents' Lecturer and director of the Center for the Study of Voting, Elections and Democracy in the UNM Political Science Department. A national expert in the field of election administration, Atkeson's general research ...

Ziarat Hossain is an associate professor of Family Studies in the UNM College of Education in the Department of Individual, Family and Community Education. He is also the program director for the Family Studies program at UNM. His research interests...

Research focuses on the cultural and institutional underpinnings of democracy, especially those rooted in faith communities, religion, social movements, global/transnational sociology, comparative sociology, community organizing, comparative civil ...