Recent News
Uncovering America’s First War: Contact, Conflict, and Coronado’s Expedition to the Rio Grande
Posted: Mar 28, 2025 - 10:00am
Dr. Matthew Schmader, Adjunct Associate Professor in the UNM Department of Anthropology, has published a comprehensive monograph on his work in Uncovering America’s First War: Contact, Conflict, and Coronado’s Expedition t...read more
Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Posted: Mar 27, 2025 - 12:00pm
Melissa Emery Thompson, professor and associate chair of The University of New Mexico’s Anthropology Department [and Assistant Vice President for Research at UNM], has been named a 2024 American Association for the Advancement o...read more
Dr. Heather Edgar Receives Awards from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Dental Anthropology Association
Posted: Mar 24, 2025 - 01:00pm
Dr. Heather Edgar has received two awards for her significant accomplishments in the field of Dental Anthropology. The Ellis R. Kerley Award Research Award was presented at the meetings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. ...read more
Research at Mummy Cave, Tsé Yaa Kin, at Canyon de Chelly featured in Smithsonian Magazine
Posted: Mar 05, 2025 - 12:00pm
The March 2025 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine features research at Mummy Cave, Tsé Yaa Kin, at Canyon de Chelly where the UNM Anthropology Department is leading a grant-funded archaeological-site conservation project. Angelyn Bass,...read more
Monica Warner Awarded Residential Internship at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)
Posted: Feb 28, 2025 - 12:00am
Monica Warner, PhD candidate in the Archaeology subfield, has been awarded a residential internship at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) to study Strontium isotopes for her dissertation project titled Migration in Southeastern Maya ...read more
Call for Proposals: Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies
Posted: Feb 27, 2025 - 12:00pm
The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce its Spring 2025 Call for Proposals. You may access the guidelines for applications as well the application at the Ortiz Website. Completed applications are due by 5 pm, March ...read more
Dr. Joe Watkins named 2025 recipient of SAA's Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted: Feb 24, 2025 - 12:00pm
Dr. Joe Watkins has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award. He will be presented with the award at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 25,...read more
Shuká Káa Cave, Southeast Alaska: Archeology, Ecology, and Community, (Alaska Anthropological Association’s Aurora Monograph IX
Posted: Feb 20, 2025 - 12:00pm
E. James Dixon, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and former Director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and colleagues have published “Shuká Káa Cave, Southeast Alaska: Archeology, Ecology, and Community, (Alaska Anthropological...read more
Sing me Back Home: Songwriting Etnografico e Politica della Lingua Sarda
Posted: Feb 13, 2025 - 12:00pm
UNM Associate Professor, singer-songwriter and anthropologist Dr. Kristina Jacobsen has just published the definitive Italian translation of her book, Sing me Back Home: Songwriting Etnografico e Politica della Lingua Sarda, with NeoClassica Pr...read more
New DNA Research Examines Predecessors of Red Lady of El Miron
Posted: Feb 07, 2025 - 12:00pm
Around 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, archaeologists started exploring the cave, finding abundant evidence of prehistoric people and their activities. In 201...read more
Sarah Leiter Awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship at Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Posted: Jan 31, 2025 - 09:00am
Sarah Leiter, PhD Candidate in the Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology subfield, has been warded Post Doctoral Fellowship at Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The fellowship will br...read more
