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Carolyn McSherry holds the Juan and Virginia Chacon Fellowship and has spent part of the year processing the papers of writer-photographer Nancy Wood. She is a Ph.D. student in the American Studies program.Her research is about the challenges posed to ...

Morgan LeBin, a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, will speak Friday, June 15, at 11 a.m. in the Waters Room (105) of Zimmerman Library on "A Riparian 'Empire' in the Chihuahuan Desert: Spanish, Puebloans, and Apaches in Seventeenth Century New ...

Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English Daniel Worden will discuss "Laughing Horse magazine and Modernism in New Mexico at a free lecture on Wednesday, April 25 at 2 p.m. in the Waters Room (105) in Zimmerman Library on the University ...

The UNM School of Architecture and Planning offers its 2012 Southwest Summer Institute for Preservation and Regionalism in a series of courses running June 11-29. Each three-hour credit course meets for five days from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.Chris Wilson, JB ...

In his book "Miracle on the Mesa", Bud Davis notes that two students - Marie Pope Wallis and Hector H. Lee - were the first to get their doctorates at the June 7, 1947 commencement.Lee's degree was in English - American Studies, American Civilization, ...

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Oral History Association will feature a number of UNM Faculty and students. The conference is scheduled for Friday-Saturday, April 13-14 at the Hotel Albuquerque.Featured presenters include Kristen S. Valencia on ...

One hundred years ago, U.S. President William H. Taft signed the document that made New Mexico the 47th state of the union. UNM is celebrating with a new digital archive that throws open the photo collections of museums throughout the state. The archive ...

Princeton University History Professor Martha Sandweiss is the featured speaker for the 2011-2012 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, presented by the UNM Department of History's Center for the Southwest. Sandweiss ...

Distinguished Las Cruces writer Denise Chávez presents the second annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, speaking on the connections between Chicana feminism and borderlands literature, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the ...

It was the late 1970's. Albuquerque was on a growth spurt and the steadily increasing numbers of single and divorced people were becoming frustrated trying to deal with a society that was primarily marriage/family oriented. Marilyn Stutt was working in ...