College of Arts & Sciences

In response to the positive feedback from the University community, UNM’s Department of History is expanding the public lecture series for History 220: The History of UNM. The course is designed to give students the opportunity to investigate the...

For the first time ever, the History Department is offering a class about the "History of The University of New Mexico." The course titled, “History 220 – The History of The University of New Mexico,” features a series of public lectures on a variety of...

Seven humanities doctoral students in the College of Arts & Sciences at The University of New Mexico are recipients of the 2017 Bilinski Fellowship. As a recipient, each student will receive dissertation completion fellowships made possible through...

Jason Scott Smith, professor in the Department of History at The University of New Mexico, has been selected as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at the University College Dublin School of History.

Whether it’s the Western classics from the 1950s or modern productions like “Breaking Bad,” New Mexico has been a hot spot for film and television for years. Now, University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Paul Hutton is putting the industry front and center in a new exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum.

The Center for the Southwest at The University of New Mexico announces the 2017 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture.

As part of an effort to spur the transformation of graduate education in the humanities, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) visited The University of New Mexico to speak with students and faculty about the role the discipline can play in the world’s economy.

The UNM Departments of American Studies, English, History and Linguistics, along with 28 other colleges and universities have been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to rethink and transform the training and education for the “next...

Professor Emeritus John Kessell will give a lecture on Southwestern mapmaking on Friday, Sept. 9 in the UNM History Department Commons Room—1104 Mesa Vista Hall—from 2:30-4 p.m.  

The New Mexico Historical Review Staff hosts a free day-long symposium celebrating nine decades of the publication on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UNM Student Union Building In 90 volumes, the NMHR has published over 37,000 pages,...