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Ancestral Relations and Late Prehispanic Dynamics between the Mimbres and Casas Grandes Cultures of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest Region

Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 02:00pm

Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers, PhD candidate in Archaeology, has published Ancestral Relations and Late Prehispanic Dynamics between the Mimbres and Casas Grandes Cultures of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest Region  in the Journal of Anthropo...read more

The Community at the Crossroads: Artiodactyl Exploitation and Socio-environmental Connectivity at Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581)

Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 01:00pm

Dr. Emily Lena Jones, Dr. Scott Kirk (UNM PhD, 2021, Archaeology), Caitlin Ainsworth (PhD Candidate, Archaeology), Dr. Asia Alsgaard (UNM PhD, 2021, Archaeology), Jana Valesca Meyer (PhD Student, 2021, Archaeology), and Dr. Cyler Conrad (UNM PhD, 20...read more

Joe Birkman Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award

Posted: Nov 22, 2021 - 12:00pm

Joe Birkmann (PhD Candidate, Archaeology) and his co-chairs, Dr. Bruce Huckell and Dr. Michael Graves, have been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award towards his project entitled "Long Term Adoption ...read more

PUEBLO ON THE PLAINS: The Second Season of Investigations at the Merchant Site in Southeastern New Mexico Volume 2

Posted: Nov 12, 2021 - 11:00am

Genevieve Woodhead, archaeology graduate student, has made significant contributions towards a groundbreaking, technological study of Ochoa Ware, especially the corrugated ceramic versions of it found very unusually in far southeastern New Mexico an...read more

Five UNM Anthropology Graduate Students awarded GPSA New Mexico Research Grants

Posted: Nov 02, 2021 - 10:00am

Five UNM Anthropology graduate students have been awarded GPSA New Mexico Research Grants: Genevieve Woodhead (Archaeology) received a GPSA High Priority New Mexico Research Grant for her dissertation research on how immigrants from the Mesa Verde a...read more

National Native American Heritage Month, November 2021

Posted: Oct 29, 2021 - 12:00pm

The UNM Department of Anthropology celebrates National Native American Heritage Month, November 2021. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about Native American Heritage Month history, Native American scholars, even...read more

Dr. Joshua Shapero Awarded Wenner-Gren Foundation's Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship

Posted: Oct 28, 2021 - 10:00am

Joshua Shapero has been awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year in order to complete the manuscript of his book, "The Ground Beneath Our Words: Speaking and Living with Places in Peru’s C...read more

Jacque Kocer receives 2021-22 American Fellowship by The American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Posted: Oct 26, 2021 - 09:00am

Jacque Kocer, Archaeology doctoral student, is being honored with a  2021-22 American Fellowship by The American Association of University Women (AAUW).  As one of the world’s oldest leading supporters of graduate women’s educa...read more

Dr. Louise Lamphere Lamphere Named Top Influential Anthropologist

Posted: Oct 25, 2021 - 09:00am

Dr. Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been named among the Top Influential Anthropologists Today by AcademicInfluence.com. The anthropologists on this list are major contributo...read more

Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions

Posted: Oct 25, 2021 - 09:00am

Dr. Catherine Rhodes has co-edited a new book, Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), based on more than 13 years of collaborative research between Rhodes and co-authors Stan...read more

The Pueblo Bonito Mounds: Formation History, Architectural Context and Representational Fields

Posted: Oct 21, 2021 - 12:00pm

Dr. W. H. Wills and several UNM PhD students, including Katharine Williams, Beau Murphy, Paulina Przystupa, and Wetherbee B. Dorshow (PhD, 2012) have published The Pueblo Bonito Mounds: Formation History, Architectural Context and Representational F...read more

Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson named Interim Assistant Vice President for Research

Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 04:00pm

Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson, along with Dr. David Hansen (Biology), has been named an Interim Assistant Vice President for Research in the provost office at UNM.  Dr. Ellen Fisher, Vice President for Research notes, “I am confident the ins...read more

Cameron Zarrabzadeh Appointed Social Media Manager for the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Posted: Oct 11, 2021 - 09:00am

Cameron Zarrabzadeh has been appointed the Social Media Manager for the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.  He will work closely with the Editor-in-Chief to manage Facebook and Twitter accounts for the journal and will also connect with other&...read more

Dr. Cate Rhodes Awarded a WeR1 Faculty Scholarship TIme (FaST) from the UNM Vice President for Research

Posted: Sep 24, 2021 - 12:00pm

Dr.Catherine Rhodes, assistant professor of Ethnology, has been awarded a WeR1 Faculty Scholarship TIme (FaST) Award from the UNM Vice President for Research.  Her book, titled Exceptional Maya-ness: Linguistics as a Site for ‘Maya’...read more

UNM Anthropology Team Analyzes Life in Pueblo at Crossroads

Posted: Sep 23, 2021 - 12:00pm

In a paper titled The Community at the Crossroads: Artiodactyl Exploitation and Socio-environmental Connectivity at Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581) recently published in KIVA, Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History, a team from The ...read more