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The Department of History, with sponsorships and support from the Center for the Southwest, the Feminist Research Institute, the Institute of American Indian Research, the Institute of Medieval Studies, the Latin American and Iberian Institute, Women,...

During this year’s Helen Damico Memorial Lecture series hosted by the Institute for Medieval Studies at The University of New Mexico, speakers will examine the many myths and misconceptions about the roles that women played during the Middle Ages.

Justine Andrews, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico Department of Art, recently became the director for the Institute of Medieval Studies, only the third in the program’s 34-year history. She follows in the footsteps of the late Helen...

University of New Mexico Professor Emerita Helen Damico, who founded the school’s Institute for Medieval Studies, died April 14 from complications arising from COVID-19. Damico also established the Institute’s popular annual Medieval Spring Lecture...

In Zimmerman Library on the campus of The University of New Mexico, there is a facsimile of the Godescalc Gospel Lectionary, an illuminated manuscript created by a Frankish scribe named Godescalc. Professor Timothy Graham, wearing white gloves and using...