College of Arts & Sciences

University of New Mexico alumna Amy Thompson has been awarded the UNM Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Award for her dissertation Comparative Processes of Sociopolitical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains.  Thompson, who received a Ph.D. in...

The Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May with a website page full of resources about history, racism, culture, and many other...

Cynthia Chavez Lamar, University of New Mexico alumna and director of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Alfonso Ortiz Lecture on Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29. An enrolled member of...

New research published this week by University of New Mexico archaeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical for the studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. According to the...

 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...

The University of New Mexico’s long-scheduled Journal of Anthropological Research 52nd Distinguished Lecture will host Christina Warinner, a bioarcheologist at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute best known for her research on the evolution of ancient...

Human civilizations depend on the climate. Changes in climate affect the production of food and other resources that support our populations and economies. Paul Hooper, alumnus and adjunct associate professor of Anthropology at The University of New...

Three University of New Mexico archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology made significant contributions to a recent special issue of The Journal of Quaternary Science (JQS). Recent UNM Ph.D. and current UNM Adjunct Assistant Professor Milena...

The Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is celebrating Women’s History Month in March with a website page full of resources about history, events, research, videos, and many other topics, including a synopsis of the history-making...

Suzanne Oakdale, Professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico and the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Anthropological Research, has published a new book called Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous...