Dr. Joseph Aguilar will present his talk Indigenizing the Academies: Asserting Indigenous Thought and Practice in Archaeology on Friday, September 17 at 2 pm as part of the 2021 Fall Anthropology Colloquia Speaker Series.  You can access the talk here.  You can obtain the passcode by emailing Dr. Ian Wallace at iwallace@unm.edu

Joseph Aguilar is an enrolled member of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, and currently serves as an archaeologist with Bering Straits Native Corporation and is also the pueblo’s Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His general research interests include Indigenous Archaeology, museums, landscape archaeology, and tribal historic preservation. He is currently working on exhibit and content development for several museums, including the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, the de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco, the Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum at Mesa Verde National Park, and for the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM.

Hosted by the UNM Department of Anthropology, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, and the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) the Department Colloquia Speaker Series will continue this semester.  Talks from this years series are available on our You Tube for your viewing.

Upcoming talks include:

9/24 Dr. David Groenfeldt (Water-Culture Institute)

10/1  Dr. Amy Lu (Stonybrook)

10/22  Sarah Leiter, New Mexico Folklore Scholar Award (UNM Anthropology)

11/5  Dr. Dimitri Brown (School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe)

11/19 Dr. Matthew Schmader (UNM Anthropology)

12/3 Dr. Evelyn Jagoda (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)