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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

Ellen Dyer Awarded the Grand Prize in UNM Grad Studies' LoboBITES 3min Thesis Competition
Posted: Nov 18, 2024 - 12:00pm
Ellen Dyer, Evolutionary Anthropology Doctoral Student, was awarded the grand prize in UNM Grad Studies' LoboBITES 3min Thesis Competition for her thesis Sex-Specific Effects of Affiliative Bonds on Cortisol in Wild Chimpanzees in Kibale National Pa...read more

Eleanor Matthews Awarded Student Prize for Best Poster at the meeting of the Southwestern Association of Biological Anthropologists
Posted: Nov 18, 2024 - 12:00pm
Eleanor Matthews, Evolutionary Anthropology Doctoral Student, was awarded the sudent prize for best poster at the meeting of the Southwestern Association of Biological Anthropologists for her work Strategic Aggression Among Wild Male Chimp...read more

New article in Sapiens: Do Moose “Belong” in Colorado?
Posted: Nov 15, 2024 - 12:00am
In a new article published in Sapiens, alumni William Taylor (UNM PhD, 2016) and Jon Dombrosky (UNM PhD, 2021) along with Dr. Emily Jones (UNM Professor of Anthropology), Dr. Chance Ward, and Dr. John Went use archaeological data to explore whether ...read more
National Native American Heritage Month, November 2024
Posted: Nov 01, 2024 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates National Native American Heritage Month, November 2024. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about UNM groups, events, Native American Heritage Month history, Native American scholars, research, news ...read more
Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
Posted: Sep 12, 2024 - 09:00am
UNM, a Hispanic serving institution, celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, 2024. The red links below will take you to more information. Scroll down to read about UNM Hispanic organizations, events, schola...read more

New Book from Alum Dr. William Taylor: Hoof Beats How Horses Shaped Human History
Posted: Aug 07, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. William Taylor (UNM PhD, 2016) has published his book Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History with the University of California Press. About the Book "Hoof Beats helps readers see the drama even in the grass eatin...read more

In Memoriam: Dr. Richard Carl Chapman
Posted: Aug 01, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. Richard “Dick” Chapman, former Director of UNM’s Office of Contract Archaeology and Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, passed away on June 25, 2024. Dr. Chapman was a pioneer in cultu...read more
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Steven Feld among 86 new Fellows welcomed by the British Academy
Posted: Jul 26, 2024 - 09:00am
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Steven Feld at The University of New Mexico has been elected as a British Academy Fellow. He was among the 86 leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences elected from the United Kingdom a...read more

Nikki Appel Awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
Posted: Jul 16, 2024 - 12:00pm
Nikki Appel, Evolutionary Anthropology graduate student, has been awarded a dissertation improvement grant by the National Science Foundation. Her proposal is titled, Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assessing differences between biological age...read more

Dr. Keith Hunley Appointed Associate Dean of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Departments, UNM College of Arts and Sciences
Posted: Jun 28, 2024 - 12:00am
Dr. Keith Hunley has been appointed Associate Dean for Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Departments in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hunley is an Evolutionary Anthropologist who joined the faculty in 2004. He served a...read more