Current Projects
Ancestral Gila Homelands: Indigenous Kinship Ties and Land Ethics—2,000 Years, Before and Beyond
Project Lead: Michelle Kells Affiliations: Chicana & Chicano Studies, UNM ... read more
Incorporating Cultural Information in Forensic Casework: Insights from South Texas and Guatemala
Project Lead: Kelly Kamnikar and Heather JH Edgar Affiliations: Anthropology and Pathology/Office of the Medical Investigator, UNM... read more
Language and Cultural Outreach
Project Lead: Emma Trentman, Heather Sweetser, and Glenn Fetzer Affiliations: Language Learning Center, UNM and New Mexico Organization of Language Educators... read more
Smith Family Totem Pole
Over the course of nine months in 2017 through a collaboration among the Tlowitsis Nation, the Maxwell Museum, the Department of Anthropology, and the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, the Smith Family Totem Pole “collected”... read more
Support for Garifuna Language Classes
Project Lead: Andrew Gorvetzian Affiliations: Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine, UNM... read more
Understanding the relationship between learning Diné Bizaad and holistic wellbeing of young Diné learners, their families and communities
Project Lead: Tiffany Lee, Melvatha Chee, and Wendy Greyeyes Affiliations: Native American Studies and Linguistic, UNM... read more
Wicazo Sa Review Lecture Series
Project Lead: Lloyd Lee and Madeline Rose Mendoza Affiliations: Native American Studies, UNM... read more
Women Constructing Other Women: Social Practice, Co-Construction, and Self-Discovery through Creative Works in the Tertulias Peer Support Project with Women Immigrants from Mexico
Project Lead: Janet Page-Reeves, Lidia Regino, Maria Tellez Affliations: Office for Community Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Office for Community Health, Tertulias Research, UNM, and Tertulias, Engagement Director.... read more
“Passing the Fire”: Diné C.A.R.E. Founding Member Interviews
Project Lead: Robyn Jackson - Executive Director, Diné C.A.R.E. Affiliations: Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment (Diné C.A.R.E.), UNM (Cameron Zarrabzadeh, PhD student SCALA, project volunteer/assistant)... read more
