Departmental News

Posted:  Feb 27, 2023 - 10:00am

The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies is a collaboration between UNM’s Anthropology Department and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. The Center is named for Dr. Alfonso Ortiz, the late UNM Professor of Anthropology, MacArthur Fellow, and citizen of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. Dr. Ortiz believed that academic knowledge should be relevant, useful, and accountable to the University and to communities beyond campus. Today, the Ortiz Center seeks to support his vision by serving as a site and resource for the pursuit of knowledge through equitable partnerships between communities and UNM.

We invite you to apply for funding to support collaborative initiatives in the arts, humanities and social sciences that bridge academia and the wider community. Examples include but are not limited to lectures, museum exhibits, creative works, workshops, and research projects that focus on material culture and oral history, environment and climate change, education, language use and reclamation, food and health, or any other topic of interest to people in your community or communities with which you collaborate. We support fully-developed collaborative initiatives, and we also provide seed funds to develop longer-term and/or larger-scale initiatives and projects. Examples of recently funded projects
are listed here.

Proposals for the Spring semester are due by March 18.  Applicants are encouraged to contact the Director of the Ortiz Center, Michael Graves, before submitting their request at ortizcenter@unm.edu. You will receive a response to your application within one month from the proposal deadline date.  

For more information on how to apply, read FY23 Ortiz Funding Guidelines.