College of Arts & Sciences

Frances Hayashida, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico is co-editor of a new publication Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes published...

 A historic space at The University of New Mexico that houses a collection of rare anthropological works will be upgraded and improved thanks to a $90,000 grant. The grant to support the Clark Field Archive and Library (CFAL) from the Allan and Joyce...

Two professors from The University of New Mexico, including Hua Guo and Wirt Wills, were elected recently by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to the newest class of AAAS Fellows. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564...

Karen Collins, artist and Executive Director of the African American Miniature Museum, will be featured in the first of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s public events of 2022 on Saturday, Feb. 26, at noon. The museum billed the online event as We...

The Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is celebrating Black History Month in February with a website page full of resources that include the history of Black History Month, Black scholar biographies, the African-American community...

University of New Mexico alumna Cynthia Chavez Lamar has been named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, effective Feb. 14. She is the third director of the National Museum of the American Indian and the first Native...

Heather Edgar, forensic anthropologist at The University of New Mexico Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) and professor of Anthropology, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice, according to a department press release....

Newly published research by Cyler Conrad, an adjunct assistant professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, and colleagues from The University of Kansas provides a fascinating glimpse into the food items brought to San Francisco by ship...

For the past century, Southwestern archaeologists have debated what happened to the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico after AD 1150, a group known for their vibrant pottery with its distinctive geometric and animal designs. Starting in the...

Across countries, continents, and centuries, humans have felt compelled to adorn themselves. A new book edited and co-authored by Hannah Mattson, Southwestern archaeologist and an assistant professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico,...