History

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,...

After a nationwide search, Luis Campos, associate professor of the history of science at The University of New Mexico, has been selected to serve as the next Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

For about a month every other year, graduate students from across the United States come to The University of New Mexico to learn about thousand-year-old manuscripts from the other side of the world. The class, Paleography & Codicology: A Seminar in...

The University of New Mexico Institute for Medieval Studies is hosting the 48th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association, June 16-18 on the UNM campus. The conference, titled “The Past, Present, and Future of Medieval and...

David Buozis is not what you would consider a typical college student. The 50-year-old Army veteran has been around the world and has seen and done more than most could fathom in a lifetime. But now, thanks to a support system he found at The University...

Cathleen D. Cahill and Samuel Truett, faculty at the History Department in the College of Arts & Sciences, have been appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Program. They join more than 400 other scholars ...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. student Michelle Martin has always had a rich love of history. She studied the subject for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees and is now continuing her academic work at UNM. But, the road she took to becoming a Lobo was far from typical and has opened doors she never imagined.