News

Provost James Paul Holloway and Senior Vice Provost Barbara Rodriguez at The University of New Mexico announced the appointment of Lloyd Lee as the new director of the Center for Regional Studies. He brings years of UNM faculty and leadership experience...

Barbara Brown Simmons has orchestrated many events that are forever part of The University of New Mexico’s historical fabric. Her recent oral history project immortalizes these events, making sure important parts of the University’s history—and the...

UNM students will now have the opportunity to study with leading Mexican scholars, while UNM faculty and graduate students will be able to build research collaborations and lasting connections with the Mexican scholarly community. The Latin American and...

Five student scholars have joined the staff of the Inter-American studies Library Program which oversees collection development in Spanish and Portuguese and in Latin American and Chicano/Hispano studies.

Kim Tallbear, associate professor of anthropology and Native American & Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Texas-Austin, is a guest speaker hosted by the University of New Mexico American Studies Department, on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. ...

The Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) announces a call for applications for U.S. Department of Education academic year and summer FLAS fellowships. Awards are contingent upon continuation of funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The FLAS ...

The American Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies hosts day-long symposium, "Everyday Practices of Popular Power: Art, Media and Immigration," Friday, Nov. 9, to convene "artivists," students, educators and community members to discuss recent works by ...

Molly Nelson, a master's student in the LAII's Latin American Studies program, curated, "Street Art of Oaxaca: Photos + Narratives from the Streets," an exhibition, is now on display through Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 in the Herzstein Latin American Gallery ...

American Studies calls to mind the breadth of the American experience through various lenses, including race, ethnicity, time and place. It's a field that's explored internally and externally. Providing an external perspective is Judit Kadar, ...

In 2009, Gerald Vizenor, UNM Distinguished Professor of American Studies, was both a delegate and principal author of the first constitution to be ratified by a native group. The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives of Minnesota ratified their new ...