Faculty Experts

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Byron Piatt

Emergency Manager

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...

Erika Monahan

Associate Professor, History

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 ...

Renae L. Mitchell

Ph.D Latino Studies, Popular Culture

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...

Bruce Milne

Professor of Biology, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Sustainable Environmental and Food Systems, Director of the Sustainability Studies Program

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...

Richard J. Meyer

Regents' Professor: Education; Professor, Literacy and Language Arts

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...

Alok Bohara

Professor of Economics; Director, Nepal Studies Center

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...