Faculty News

Who decides what societies remember? Who writes the songs that are passed down from generation to generation? What is the meaning of monuments and how does that meaning develop and change over time? And how does a past event, once overlooked, become...

UNM-Valencia Campus Associate Professor of English and Chair of CHESS, Danizete Martínez, begins her three-year membership to the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Community Colleges (CCC) after being appointed by its Executive Council. “What...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Anthropology, and curator of Human Osteology at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Heather Edgar has been appointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act (NAGPRA) Review Committee ...

The UNM School of Architecture and Planning has a new director of Community and Regional Planning. Renia Ehrenfeucht calls herself a “westerner” - born in Los Angeles and living in northern California, Seattle and Colorado. However, she comes to UNM by...

Sanjay Krishna, director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), was one of 77 members of the Optical Society of America (OSA) elected to the latest class of OSA Fellows who have served with distinction in the...

UNM faculty members Shiv Desai, Todd Ruecker and Vanessa Svihla have been named prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd) / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows due to their research and dedication to the field of education. The National Academy of...

University of New Mexico Architecture Professor Michaele Pride has joined the board of directors for the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), an international nonprofit organization working to build vibrant communities where people have diverse choices...

UNM Associate Professor of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz has won three scholarly prizes for his article “Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban America,” which was published last December in the Journal of...

It’s rare that a commercial magazine reprints an academic paper, but the British magazine Gym Class is reprinting an article, “’That’s Part of What We Do’ : The Performative Power of Vogue’s Anna Wintour” that UNM assistant professor of Communication &...

Geraldine Forbes Isais, dean of the University of New Mexico School of Architecture & Planning, was listed among DesignIntelligence’s 25 Most Admired Educators for 2016.