Jacqueline (Jacque) Kocer, an UNM Anthropology doctoral student, is being honored with a 2021-22 American Fellowship by The American Association of University Women (AAUW).
As one of the world’s oldest leading supporters of graduate women’s education,...
A new book, co-authored by Catherine Rhodes, assistant professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, examines a town that saw a 1,000-plus percent increase in Mexican residents, rising from less than 1 percent of the population to almost a...
Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been named among the Top Influential Anthropologists Today by AcademicInfluence.com. The anthropologists on this list are major contributors to the...
Beyond global immigration issues including humanitarian crises and political upheaval, climate change is playing an increasingly relevant role in migration patterns in Central America, the effects of which resonate northward into the United States with...
Ellen Fisher, vice president for Research and professor of Chemistry at The University of New Mexico, announced that Professor David Hanson from Biology and Associate Professor Melissa Emery Thompson from Anthropology have been named interim Assistant...
Celebrate International Archaeology Day and bring history to life at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s Passport to People Family Day. The in-person event is set for Saturday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the museum at The University of New...
The once-thriving Tijeras Pueblo was situated at the junction of two canyons, one north-south and one east-west, within easy reach of a number of different ecoregions, as well as on a boundary between two distinct culture areas, the Pueblo to the west...
The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, 2021. The department website features a page full of resources for Hispanic Heritage Month, including its history, information on Hispanic heritage programming this month, events and Hispanic scholars and their work...
Research recently published by adjunct assistant professor Cyler Conrad from the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico examines the importance of turkeys to the Ancestral Pueblo people and how they have managed the birds for more than...
By Raneem Ramadan, Advance at UNMSeptember 01, 2021
UNM Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology April Kamp-Whittaker has been awarded the prestigious NSF SPARC Grant and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant. Kamp-Whittaker is using the NSF SPARC Grant to develop a ArcGIS StoryMap...