Faculty Experts

B.S. (Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science), College of Santa Fe, Dec 1990 Suzan was hired by the bureau in 2013 to over see the BBER Data Bank. She has over 20 years of experiences in analyzing industry and occupation statistics for New Mexico's...

Sonia Gipson Rankin teaches in the fields of Torts, Family Law, Technology and Law, and Race and Law. Gipson Rankin’s scholarship and activism combine her computer science background with her passion for racial justice. Her work focuses on two areas: 1....

Byron Piatt, emergency manager at The University of New Mexico, graduated from FEMA’s National Emergency Management Executive Academy at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Md., after he completed the full curriculum that supports the...

  Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches Russian history from the ninth century to the present In 2013, Monahan won a spot as a visiting fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard University to participate in a seminar ...

Part-Time Faculty at UNM-Los Alamos since 2013 Scholar and instructor of literature and culture of the American hemisphere Teacher at Penn State University for five years PhD Comparative Literature with Doctoral Minor in Latin American...

W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Environmental and Food Systems Director of Sustainability Studies Program  Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico since 1986 Specializes in landscape ecology, fractal geometry and...

Expertise Meyer taught for almost 20 years before earning a Ph.D. in reading from the University of Arizona His research and teaching focus on literacy within families, learning to read, learning to write, teaching reading, teaching writing and newer...

Dr. Alok K. Bohara is a Full Professor of Economics and the founding director of the Nepal Study Center at the University of New Mexico (UNM).  He has a Masters degree in Statistics and taught at Tribhuvan University, Nepal.  He received his Ph.D. from...

Research focuses on the interaction of climatic, vegetation and faunal changes in the fossil record, particularly with respect to ape and hominin paleoecologies.  Uses stable isotopic and dental microwear analyses to reconstruct...

A member of the faculty since 2002, Dr. Troy Lovata is a tenured, associate professor in the Honors College at The University of New Mexico. Trained as an Anthropologist and Archaeologist (Ph.D., M.A. The University of Texas; B.A. Colorado State...