Departmental News

Posted:  Sep 27, 2023 - 12:00pm

Recent research on traditional irrigation in Morocco completed by UNM Anthropology graduate student Emily Hayes Rich has been featured in Science Magazine.  Emily, whose fieldwork was funded by a Fulbright award for Morocco, a Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement Award, an AAUW-UNM Scholarship, and a grant from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, just successfully passed her master's exam in our Public Archaeology program and will be graduating this term.

Learn more about Emily's experience in Morroco and her research on traditional irrigation:

After 15 months of dedicated research on Khettaras in Morocco, Fulbright Student Researcher Emily Hayes-Rich's grant is coming to a close.… | Instagram

Fulbright Student Researcher Emily Hayes-Rich continues her trek across Morocco to research and study the Khettara system! As is the… | Instagram

Let's take a moment to revisit the inaugural International Congress of Oases and Date Palms in Ouarzazate, where two of our Fulbright… | Instagram