American Studies

Kathy Powers, professor in the Department of Political Science, and affiliated faculty with Africana Studies, was awarded the prestigious fellowship to study at the Woodrow Wilson Center over the summer. She also spent part of the summer teaching in Germany.

Alex Lubin will be at the UNM Bookstore on Thursday, Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. for a reading and book signing of “Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary” (University of North Carolina Press). The event is free and open to the ...

University of New Mexico American Studies Professor A. Gabriel Meléndez has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Teaching Fellowship to Eger, Hungary, where he will teach at Eszterházy Károly College for the fall 2014 semester. Meléndez will teach, lecture ...

The Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at the University of New Mexico provided $53,475.22 to purchase books published by the University of New Mexico Press for under-funded public and tribal libraries across New Mexico. Under the leadership of Tobías ...

In one of the most detailed studies of its kind, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers have vividly chronicled the harmful public health impacts of the economic austerity measures imposed on Greece's population in the wake of the global economic ...

Alejandro Lugo presents, "Border Landscapes: The Outsider Within and the Occupied Borderlands," on Thursday, April 4 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hibben Center room 105.Lugo is a professor of anthropology and Latina/o studies at the University of Illinois ...

Ramón Arzápalo Marín, a Latin American & Iberian Institute Visiting Scholar from the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, presents, "The Colonial Maya Texts: Recent Contributions to the Theory of ...

Frederick Nunn, professor emeritus of history and international studies, Portland State University, presents, "Threads of History or, the Chile of the Arpilleras: Studies in Imagination, Perspectives, and Intrigue," on Wednesday, March 20 from 4 - 5 p.m. ...

Molly Nelson, UNM master's candidate in Latin American Studies and Art History, curated an exhibit currently on display in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room on the second floor of Zimmerman Library on the UNM campus. With support from the Latin ...

Dylan RodriguezDylan Rodríguez, professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, is a guest lecturer for the Department of American Studies. He presents, "Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial Genocide and the Logic of Evisceration," on ...