Anthropology

After 27 years of distinguished and energetic stewardship of the Journal of Anthropological Research, Lawrence Guy Straus, the Emeritus Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor at The University of New Mexico, is stepping down as...

The world’s population is aging rapidly, presenting an urgency to address the health problems of the aged. Critical insights on these problems can be gained by examining how the aging process has been shaped over evolutionary time, and how it is...

To commemorate Pride Month and express support for the LGBTQ+ community, throughout June the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is posting blog posts written by scholars and curators that tell stories embedded in the museum...

June is LGBTQI+ Pride Month and to highlight the celebration, UNM Anthropology department administrator Jennifer George has compiled a website page full of events, research, news, organizations, and other resources and information. According to the...

University of New Mexico alumna Amy Thompson has been awarded the UNM Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Award for her dissertation Comparative Processes of Sociopolitical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains.  Thompson, who received a Ph.D. in...

The Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May with a website page full of resources about history, racism, culture, and many other...

Cynthia Chavez Lamar, University of New Mexico alumna and director of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Alfonso Ortiz Lecture on Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29. An enrolled member of...

New research published this week by University of New Mexico archaeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical for the studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. According to the...

 Ajla Škrbić, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Law, Freie Universität, Berlin, will present The University of New Mexico Department of History’s Women’s History Lecture on “Gender, Power and Violence: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence...

The University of New Mexico’s long-scheduled Journal of Anthropological Research 52nd Distinguished Lecture will host Christina Warinner, a bioarcheologist at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute best known for her research on the evolution of ancient...