Departmental News

Posted:  Nov 12, 2019 - 01:00pm

Holly Brause, graduate student in the UNM Ethnology Program, has been awarded the Ruth Kennedy Memorial Lectureship Award for the 2020 award cycle.  The Ruth E. Kennedy Award was established to honor the memory of Ruth E. Kennedy, wife of Edwin L. Kennedy, a major donor to the Maxwell Museum. Initiated in 1981, the award recognizes Mrs. Kennedy’s abiding interest in public education. The Kennedy Award provides a stipend for an outstanding doctoral candidate in Anthropology who presents a public lecture.