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Spring 2023 Call for Project Proposals

Posted: Feb 26, 2023 - 12:00am

The Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies invites applications from UNM faculty and students for funding to support collaborative initiatives in the arts, humanities and social sciences that bridge academia and the wider community. Proposals may in...read more

Cynthia Chavez Lamar, UNM alumna, named director of Smithsonian

Posted: Jan 26, 2022 - 12:00am

Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar, UNM alumna, named director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Chavez Lamar is scheduled to present the inaugural lecture in the Alfonso Ortiz Lecture Series, hosted by the Alfonso Orti...read more

Ortiz Center Announces Funding for Collaborative Project

Posted: Feb 17, 2021 - 12:00am

In response to a call for proposals distributed in December 2020, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce funding for the following project: "Enhancing and supporting local indigenous scholars in the study...read more

Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies Call for Proposals

Posted: Dec 06, 2020 - 11:00am

The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies is currently accepting applications for Project Requests during the 2020-2021 academic year. Proposed projects should be focused on collaborative projects in education, public outreach, exhibition, ...read more

Ortiz Center Announces Funding for Collaborative Projects

Posted: Feb 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

Ortiz Center Announces Funding for Collaborative Projects In response to a call for proposals distributed in November, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce funding for the following projects: El Centro de la Raza...read more

Ortiz Center a Partner in the Native Women Making History Program at the National Museum of the American Indian

Posted: Mar 28, 2019 - 12:00am

Dr. Gwyneira Isaac, Curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum of National History and Director of the Recovering Voices Program, both of the Smithsonian Institution, has received $38,800 from the Smithsonian’s Because of Her S...read more

20th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference

Posted: Feb 11, 2019 - 12:00am

On February 6-8, 2019, UNM hosted the 20th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference “The Knowledge of Our Ancestors, the Strength of Our Communities." The conference was co-sponsored by the Institute for American Indian Research (...read more

Ortiz Center Director to participate in Invited Session at the annual American Anthropological Association meetings in San Jose, CA

Posted: Nov 08, 2018 - 12:00am

Lea McChesney, Ortiz Center Director, Research Assistant Professor, and Maxwell Museum Curator of Ethnology will be presenting her work “Keeping Our Connections to Up Home: Museum-Community Collaborations, Gendered Knowledge, and Community Bui...read more

Lakota and Dakota Community Scholars Review: Our Histories are the Future

Posted: Nov 08, 2018 - 12:00am

The Alfonso Ortiz Center has awarded funds to UNM’s Institute for American Indian Research to support the participation of two community-based organizers and intellectuals at the 2019 American Indian Studies Association Conference it will host...read more

Hopi Pot Acquisition

Posted: Apr 16, 2018 - 12:00am

Ortiz Center donates contemporary polychrome pot by award-winning Hopi potter Karen Kahe Charley to the Maxwell Museum. With Ortiz Center funds, Director and Maxwell Museum Curator of Ethnology Lea McChesney purchased this Hopi polychrome pottery la...read more

Hope Casareno Awarded the Ortiz Center Community Engagement Scholarship

Posted: Apr 08, 2018 - 12:00am

The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies Community Engagement Scholarship is designed to raise awareness of the work being done by UNM graduate students in the area of public anthropology, and to highlight the breadth of research that addr...read more

Spring 2023 Call for Project Proposals

Posted: Oct 21, 2024 - 12:53pm

The Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies invites applications from UNM faculty and students for funding to support collaborative initiatives in the arts, humanities and social sciences that bridge academia and the wider community. Proposals may in...read more