Faculty News

UNM Political Science Professor Lonna Atkeson is one of two recipients of the Society for Political Methodology’s 2015 Excellence in Mentoring Award anounced recently. The award committee wrote this in the citation for Atkeson. “The committee wishes ...

A special symposium is being held for Professor of Linguistics, Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, on Sunday, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in SUB Ballroom A. The event pays tribute to her 44 years of...

The Office of Academic Affairs and Office of HSC Academic Affairs recently announced the promotion of seven University of New Mexico faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The 2014-15 list includes: Bill Gilbert, Hua Guo, Zachary Sharp, Arthur...

University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Sherri Burr has received a prestigious one-month fellowship from the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS) for her forthcoming book...

Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, associate chair and associate professor of the University of New Mexico’s Department of History, is one of 36 recipients chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ new ‘Public Scholar’ program, an initiative designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience.

The Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Advisory Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 2015 Beckman Award. The award is given to professors who inspired their former students to achieve greatness.

University of New Mexico Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz will spend the 2015-16 academic year at Princeton University as a Distinguished Fellow in the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and...

Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, has been selected as a 2015-16 Fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées (Institute for Advanced Study) in Nantes, France. 

Assistant Professor of Architecture Alex Webb is not your average T-square, model-building architect. He uses the design skills and tech savvy he gained through an architectural education in new and innovative ways.

Carnegie Corporation of New York announced the names of 32 Andrew Carnegie Fellows, a major new annual fellowship program that will provide support for scholars in the social sciences and humanities. University of New Mexico Associate Professor of...