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Hispanic Heritage Month 2025

Posted: Sep 11, 2025 - 09:00am

UNM, a Hispanic serving institution, celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, 2025. The red links below will take you to more information. Scroll down to read about UNM Hispanic organizations, events, schola...read more

Exploring the History of Turkey Management and Domestication: A Transatlantic Perspective

Posted: Aug 27, 2025 - 11:00pm

A new edited volume, Exploring the History of Turkey Management and Domestication A Transatlantic Perspective, published by the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris this past June, features articles by a suite of UNM students and former student...read more

Archaeological Fiction and a Scientist’s Dilemma

Posted: Aug 27, 2025 - 02:00pm

In a new article in Sapiens, Dr. Emily Jones discusses the role of fiction and imaginative play in inspring students to learn about ancient pre-history.  Archaeological Fiction and a Scientist’s Dilemma, she discusses her experience ...read more

James Chaves Awarded Fellowship with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)

Posted: Aug 25, 2025 - 12:00pm

James Chaves, graduate student in the Public Archaeology program, has been awarded a fellowship with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) to work on his project FROM OPEN WATERS TO ESTUARIES: INVESTIGATING PREHISPANIC FISHING...read more

Angelyn Bass, Research Assistant Professor, Continues Impressive Funding Record with the National Parks Service

Posted: Aug 20, 2025 - 12:00pm

UNM students Tara Smith (Undergraduate, Anthropology) and Kendal Jacobsen (Graduate, Linguistics) worked with Angelyn Bass this summer on her National Parks Service (NPS) funded project: Cavate Conservation Treatment Assessment and Recommendati...read more

Larkin Chapman Awarded NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant

Posted: Aug 06, 2025 - 12:00pm

Larkin Chapman, doctoral candidate in Archaeology, has been awareded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project Assessing Support for Human-Caused Extinction of Pleistocene Horses in the Radiocarbon Record. AbstractThe cause of the l...read more

In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025)

Posted: Aug 04, 2025 - 12:00pm

Dr. Jane Lancaster, UNM Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, passed away on August 3, 2025.   Dr. Lancaster was a pioneer in the human evolutionary sciences. Her early research on primate behavior developed into groundbreaking ...read more

Dr. Kristina Jacobsen Awarded CORE Fellowship to Study Song, Food and Connection

Posted: Aug 04, 2025 - 08:00am

Dr. Kristina Jacobsen has been awarded a CORE Fellowship to study song, food and connection for her projects Three Miles and Hour and Together at the Table.   The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St. James, ...read more

MOSAIC: Creating the First-of-its-Kind Database for Analyzing Human Remains

Posted: May 13, 2025 - 12:00pm

Dr. Heather Edgar is part of a team headed by Dr. Joe Hefner at Michigan State University that will create first-of-its-kind database for analyzing human remains. Dr. Edgar is a Forensic Anthropologist and runs the Bridge Lab in the UNM Departm...read more

Students Awarded Grants from The Hitchcock-Kelly Fund for Human and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

Posted: May 12, 2025 - 12:00pm

This year, the UNM Department of Anthropology and the UNM Department of Native American Studies have made seven small grant awards to graduate students in both departments.  The students will receive funding to work on research projects directl...read more

Dr. Les Field Awarded the Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lectureship

Posted: May 09, 2025 - 12:00pm

Dr. Les Field, professor in the Socio Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SCALA) subfield in the Department of Anthropology, has been awarded the 2025-2026 Snead Wertheim Endowed Lecture. This lectureship was created in 1989 by Jerry and Mary...read more

UNM Anthropology Spring 2025 Undergraduate Awards

Posted: May 02, 2025 - 12:00pm

During the Spring semester, the UNM Department of Anthropology awards a variety of undergraduate scholarships to support research, fieldwork, study abroad, and conference attendance.   Department of Anthropology Undergraduate Student Award...read more

Laura Steele, PhD Candidate, Awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship

Posted: May 01, 2025 - 12:00pm

Laura Steele, PhD Candidate in the Archaeology subfield, has been awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies. Dumbarton Oaks is a Harvard research institute, library, museum, and garden, located in Washington D.C.,...read more