Recent News

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
Andrew Kennedy Awarded the Albert A. Dahlberg Prize
Posted: Mar 24, 2025 - 12:00pm
Andrew Kennedy, doctoral student in Evolutionary Anthropology, was awarded the Albert A. Dahlberg Prize for his paper Early Life Stress Exposure and Sex Differences in Wild Chimpanzees: Using Tooth Histology and Digital Light Microscopy.&#...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
Women's History Month, March 2025
Posted: Mar 01, 2025 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates Women's History Month, March 2025. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about UNM organizations, events, scholars, the history of Women's History Month, research, news and organizations. UNM Wome...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
National Black History Month, February 2025
Posted: Jan 31, 2025 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates National Black History Month (also known as African American History Month), February 2025. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about events, Black scholars, the history of Black History Month, ...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

Dr. Catherine Rhodes Publishes New Book "Undoing Modernity: Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan"
Posted: Jan 13, 2025 - 09:00am
Dr. Catherine Rhodes has published a new book Undoing Modernity: Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan with the University of Texas Press. An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness:On the Yucatan Peninsula toda...read more

UNM Anthropology Enters New Task Agreement with Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Posted: Dec 09, 2024 - 01:00pm
UNM’s Department of Anthropology has recently entered into a new task agreement with Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The $70,000 agreement is funded by the National Park Service’s Cooperative Research and Training Programs. The l...read more
Associate Professor of Music and Anthropology (SCALA), Kristina Jacobsen, releases first documentary film, “From Sardinia to New Mexico"
Posted: Dec 09, 2024 - 12:00pm
Associate Professor of Music & Anthropology and Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Kristina Jacobsen, has just released and directed her first documentary film, From Sardinia to New Mexico: Multipart Singing as Intercultural Exchange. The film, released i...read more