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Genevieve Woodhead (UNM PhD, 2026) Appointed Postdoctoral Research Associate of Anthropology at William & Mary
Posted: May 14, 2026 - 12:00pm
Genevieve Woodhead (UNM PhD, 2026) has been appointed Postdoctoral Research Associate of Anthropology at William & Mary a top public university located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Named a "New Ivy" by Forbes with centuries of tradition and ...read more
Anthropology Graduate Students Receive Department Scholarships
Posted: May 12, 2026 - 12:00pm
The UNM Department of Anthropology is honored to be able to provide funding to offer graduate students to support their research. Spring awards include: The Anthropology Research Award James Chaves (Public Archaeology) Eleanor Matthews (E...read more
Anthropology Undergraduate Students Receive Department Scholarships
Posted: May 12, 2026 - 12:00pm
The UNM Department of Anthropology is honored to have several undergraduate scholarships to offer students, funded by our generous donors. During the Spring Semester, the Department of Anthropology awarded ten Undergraduate Awards to help fund...read more
New Book from Dr. David Stuart Ancient Women Gardeners: Prelude to the Chacoan World Receives Highest Ranking from Choice Reviews
Posted: May 04, 2026 - 12:15pm
The latest book from Dr. David Stuart, Ancient Women Gardeners: Prelude to the Chacoan World, has received the highest ranking from Choice Reviews. Published by UNM Press, the book presents "A wholly new perspective on the importance of gardens...read more
Undergraduate Student Riley Jones Receives the UNM OVPR Deborah Rifenbary Memorial Undergraduate Globally-Engaged Research Award
Posted: May 04, 2026 - 12:00pm
Undergraduate Anthropology student Riley Jones has received the UNM OVPR Deborah Rifenbary Memorial Undergraduate Globally-Engaged Research Award for his honors thesis research. The intent of his project is to document and analyze a uniqu...read more
Dr. Catherine R. Rhodes Receives a 2026 UNM Globally-Engaged Research Award
Posted: Apr 17, 2026 - 12:00pm
Dr. Catherine R. Rhodes, Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, has received a 2026 UNM Globally-Engaged Research Award. This award is in recognition of Dr. Rhodes’ research efforts toward internationalizing linguistic anthropolo...read more
Esteban Rangel Receives U.S. Student Fullbright-García Robles Research Award
Posted: Apr 17, 2026 - 12:00pm
Esteban Rangel, doctoral student in the Evolutionary Anthropology subfield, has received a U.S. Student Fullbright-García Robles Research Award. This grant provides U.S. students studying a master’s or PhD degree the oppor...read more
Christina Lorenzatto Awarded a Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Posted: Apr 13, 2026 - 12:00pm
Christina Lorenzatto, doctoral candidate in the Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SCALA) subfield, has been awarded a Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to support her project What Kind of People are Piri-Piri?: Life H...read more
30 Years of Excavations & Multidisciplinary Analyses in El Miron Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
Posted: Mar 03, 2026 - 12:00pm
Lawrence Straus, Emeritus Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor, together with Universidad de Cantabria Emeritus Professor Manuel Gonzalez Morales, have just published in UNM’s internationally respected Journal of Anthropological Research, a sy...read more
PaleoAmerica: Papers in Honor of Bruce Huckell
Posted: Feb 20, 2026 - 12:00pm
PaleoAmerica Volume 11, No 3-4 features a special edition with Papers in Honor of Bruce B. Huckell with Guest editors: J. David Kilby (UNM PhD, 2008), Joseph M. Birkmann (UNM PhD, 2025), Briggs Buchanan (UNM PhD, 2005), Marcus J. Hamilton ...read more
