American Studies

Four students at The University of New Mexico have been selected as Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network (URAD) ambassadors. The exceptional undergraduate researchers represent a variety of majors, backgrounds, research interests, and levels...

Six undergraduates at The University of New Mexico have been chosen to receive the Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Fall 2024. The scholarship, presented by the Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network (URAD) is intended to support students...

Research by a University of New Mexico professor that traced Catholic priests who abused and molested Native American children and teenagers was recently cited in an article in the Washington Post. Investigative reporters at the Post used the research...

UNM American Studies Professor and Chair Jennifer Denetdale (Diné) in partnership with the Navajo Nation Museum, has been awarded a $95,000 grant through the Henry Luce Foundation’s Indigenous Knowledge Initiative, sponsored by the First Nations...

UNM’s American Studies Department announces an exciting lecture featuring Professor Phil Deloria titled “The Year the Stars Fell: Toward a Continental History of a Very Few Hours” on Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 6-7:30 p.m. as this year’s Joel M....

This story is one for the history books, which is fitting, as the news itself is about a history book.  A devoted team of UNM Native American professors are planning, developing and writing the first ever tribal government textbook for young...

Dr. Amy Lucinda Brandzel, an associate professor at The University of New Mexico with a joint appointment in American and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, died Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at home in the care of family and surrounded by cherished pets....

Meg Honnold just wrapped up her first year at The University of New Mexico, but unlike most students on campus, it was also her first year in a classroom. Homeschooled from kindergarten through high school on a fundamentalist family commune in the Ozark...

University of New Mexico alumna Henrietta Mann, along with "Native America Calling," the live radio show that airs on UNM’s radio station KUNM, were two of the 12 recipients awarded the 2021 National Humanities Medal presented by the National Endowment...

Students are invited to register for the University of New Mexico’s Introduction to Asian American Studies class being offered for the first time, this spring. Asian American Studies examines topics related to history, literature and identity pertaining...