Faculty News

The University of New Mexico has been approved for research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of English Marissa Greenberg, Ph.D., recently received the  Barbara Hodgdon Award from the Shakespeare Association of America for her article about Shakespeare and activism.   This inaugural award recognizes...

Kristina Jacobsen, associate professor of ethnomusicology, songwriting and anthropology recently released a definitive Italian translation of her book, Sing me back home: songwriting etnografico e poltica della lingua sarda, published by NeoClassica Press in Rome and translated by Antonio Gambacorta. The book was released earlier in February.

Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology, Songwriting and Anthropology (Sociocultural and Linguistic) at The University of New Mexico, along with Sardinian ethnomusicologist Diego Pani, a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at UNM, will...

Mala Htun, author and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico, died Friday after living with cancer the last few years. She was 55. Services have been set for Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 3 p.m. at Congregation Albert,...

A big employment discrimination case is being heard in the Lone Star state's highest court this month, but not without help from a University of New Mexico law professor.

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway has selected Naomi Yavneh Klos as the next dean of the Honors College. Yavneh Klos is the Reverend Emmett M. Bienvenu, SJ, Distinguished Chair in...

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences last year announced an addition to the list of Regents’ Professors for the Annual Years 2025-2027. The newest Regent’s Professor appointed is Dr. Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, a Latin American...

The first book on renowned Mexican composer Mario Lavista, published last year by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, associate professor of Musicology at The University of New Mexico, has received a prestigious award from the American Musicological...

Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology, Songwriting and Anthropology (Sociocultural and Linguistic) at The University of New Mexico, clearly has a deep love and affinity for the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. That love comes...