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Brian Luna Lucero, the Center for Southwest Research Clinton P. Anderson fellow, explores changes digital resources are making for scholars in his talk, "Special Collections and Digital Humanities Scholarship." Lucero has worked in the public service ...

Claudia Anguiano, a 2011 Mellon Fellow at UNM has closely watched the progress of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) act as it moves through the U.S. Congress since it was first introduced in 2001. She has had a long term ...

Elaine Marie Nelson is moving into her new office at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she is now an assistant professor of History. She completed her Mellon Fellowship at the University of New Mexico in the spring and will be teaching three ...

The public art of sculptor Luis Jimenez has been an inspiration for Eric Castillo, a Mellon Fellow who recently completed his dissertation, "Expressions of Another Center: Borderlands Visual theory & the Art of Luis Jimenez." Castillo graduated in May. ...

Mellon Fellow Andrea Mays began thinking about stories and race when she was a kid watching old movies on television when she came home from school. "I loved old black and white movies, not only for the fact that they were really these elaborate ...