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The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology just completed a major grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Department chair Michael Graves said the department spent the last few years working with 23 graduate students

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere received the Franz Boas Award for exemplary service to Anthropology recently from the American Anthropological Association. The award is presented annually by the AAA to its members whose careers ...

Dr. Susan Levine speaks on medicine and the politics of knowledge and healing on Monday, Nov. 4 from 4-5:15 p.m. in Keller Hall in the UNM Center for the Arts. Her work delineates the debate between western and non-western medicine and the ...

Neema Pickett isn't your average undergraduate student. Even though she has lived most of her life in New Mexico her college career began in China. She moved to China with her husband, an Intel employee, to explore new opportunities. It was ...

Jonathan Stieglitz, right, in BoliviaUNM Department of Anthropology Research Assistant Professor Jonathan Stieglitz is lead author of a new paper published this week in PLoS ONE that examines the changes as part of a long running research project among ...

The Center for Public Anthropology has recognized students in UNM Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Keith Prufer's Introduction to Anthropology class for their opinion pieces. The students participated in a North American competition ...

UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor, Lawrence G. Straus is the editor of a book just released book, "The Magdalenian Settlement of Europe," co-edited with Thomas Terberger of Universitat Grefswald, Germany and Denise Leesch of Universite de ...

Fred SmithProfessor and Chair of Illinois State University Anthropology Department Fred Smith will present the 35th lecture sponsored by the "Journal of Anthropological Research" on "Neandertals and Folks Like Us" on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at ...

Lawrence Straus receiving bronze 'baston de mando.' Photo courtesy of Ana Belen Marin-ArroyoLeslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus was given a "homenaje" by the Sociedad Prehistroica de Cantabria in Santander, Spain. The ...

UNM Distinguished Professor of, Anthropology Jane LancasterUNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Jane Lancaster has been presented with the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution. The ...