Peter Winograd, director of the UNM Center for Education Policy Research was asked by the Regents Committee for Academic/Student Affairs and Research to examine the question of what role the university should play in the statewide Kindergarten through 12th grade pipeline. In this report to the committee, Winograd explores underlying social problems that can hamper learning and makes recommendations about how UNM might engage in the public discussion.
George Gorospe can hardly contain his enthusiasm when he talks about working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Last spring he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and is now on his way to the NASA leadership Academy. He and other students will travel for the next 10 weeks, learning about current missions and meeting with companies that work with NASA. He then heads to the NASA Ames Research Center in San Jose, California to begin work as a research engineer. In this audio interview he talks about how he managed to turn a summer learning opportunity into a chance for his dream career.
In this dual presentation Center for Southwest Research Fellows Clare Daniel and Brianne Stein present a glimpse into “Worlds within Worlds: The Photography of Eduardo Fuss.”
Daniel is the Digitization Fellow at CSWR and Special Collections. She is also a doctoral candidate in American Studies with interests in race theory, citizenship and the welfare state. She is currently working on a dissertation examining contemporary discourses of teenage pregnancy and parenthood in public policy popular culture and national and local advocacy.
Stein is the Pictorial Fellow at CSWR and Special Collections. She is a first year Ph.D. student in the History Department, focusing on urban environments in modern U.S. history. Also, she is working on her graduate certificate in the Historic Preservation and Regionalism program. After completion of the program, she hopes to work in archives.
Media contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627; kwent2@unm.edu
Brian Luna Lucero, the Center for Southwest Research Clinton P. Anderson Fellow, explores changes digital resources are making for scholars in his talk, “Special Collections and Digital Humanities Scholarship.” Lucero has worked in the public service area of University Libraries over the past year teaching students to use resources in the library.
In this talk he speaks about digital humanities and how technology offers scholars new ways to explore age old questions such as how do we make sense of the world? or how do we handle change?
Lucero is a Ph.D. candidate in history studying the U.S. West. His dissertation focuses on the memory and commemoration of the Spanish colonial past in the American Southwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In this talk Natalie Farrell, the Institutional Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research, reflects on her work throughout the academic year as she digitized historic versions of the student newspaper, the Daily Lobo. The title of her talk is “The Changing Political Attitude of UNM Students during the 20th Century.”
Farrell is a Ph.D. student in anthropology, working in archaeology. She has been working in Southwestern archaeology and Geographic Information Systems since graduating with her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in 2008. She is specializing in the manufacturing style of Southwestern ceramics.
Aurore Diehl, the Thomas L. Popejoy Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research discusses “The University Occupied: An Overview of Campus Unrest at UNM in the 1960’s and 70’s.”
Diehl is a graduate of UNM’s American Studies program and a second year Master’s student. Her research focus is the use of popular music as a lends through which to view issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class, with a special focus on gender and sexuality in hard rock and heavy metal music. She is working on a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies.
Frank Graziano, an alumnus of the UNM Latin American Studies program, presents, “Troubled Waters: Undocumented Migration from the Dominican Republic.”
Thousands of Dominicans risk their lives on outboard-powered wooden boats (known as yolas) to cross the Mona Passage and reach the neighboring island of Puerto Rico. As a commonwealth of the United States, Puerto Rico attracts migrants with its dollar economy and its access to the mainland without a passport or visa. For some migrants Puerto Rico is the final destination; for others it is a stopover en route to New York and other US cities.
Graziano, John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut University, summarizes the causes of undocumented migration, describes the methods used by smugglers, follows the migrants from pre-departure to arrival and settlement, and details the response of federal border-enforcement and prosecution agencies. Photographs and video clips taken during the fieldwork and acquired from the US Coast Guard and Border Patrol will be presented alongside the research findings. The ethnographic research for this project included about a hundred interviews with migrants, smugglers, and US border-enforcement officials and culminates in a book, Undocumented Dominican Migration, forthcoming (2012) from the University of Texas Press.
Carolyn McSherry holds the Juan and Virginia Chacon Fellowship and has spent part of the year processing the papers of writer-photographer Nancy Wood. She is a Ph.D. student in the American Studies program. Her research is about the challenges posed to 1930s-era agricultural improvement projects in Puerto Rico and on Navajo lands by people who lived in and knew those landscapes, and by others. She is interested in the relationships between agricultural sciences and colonialism.
In this talk, titled “Wrenching Poetry from the Nancy C. Wood Manuscript Collection” she explores the manuscripts in the Nancy C. Wood manuscript collection and talks about Wood as a writer. At the beginning of the talk she discusses this poem by Nancy C. Wood.
Hanna Thompson, Center for Southwest Research Fellow speaks on “A Scientific Endeavor: Controversy and Conflict in Apollo’s Quest for Lunar Knowledge.” Thompson is a student in the Landscape Architecture Program. For this fellowship she investigated former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt’s role as the first and only scientist in the Apollo Program.
PBS Sr. Correspondent Ray Suarez talks with UNM Live about the Teacher Town Hall he moderated in Albuquerque as part of PBS’s “American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen” initiative. New Mexico’s KNME was one of only 20 PBS stations selected to participate in the initiative.
James Ellis presents the second lecture in a series tied closely to the University Council on Academic Priorities (UCAP). The talk titled, “Creating the Next Generation of Leaders” features Ellis, Dean of the Marshall School of Business from the University of Southern California.
“I am pleased that James Ellis, a UNM graduate, established business professional and dean of one of the top business schools, has agreed to come to UNM and share his unique perspective about the future of higher education,” said UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah.
The University Council on Academic Priorities (UCAP) is a group of faculty, administrators and students working with Provost Abdallah to identify the principle features of the context of higher education in the country and for UNM to come up with possible sets of alternative academic directions. The effort is conceived as a prelude to more formal academic planning that will set goals and make definitive plans.
Don Randel, Ph.D. and president of the Mellon Foundations talks about the current state of education in the United States and outlines some problems in current education policy. In this talk sponsored by the UNM Office of the Provost he also gives some free advice about SAT scores, tuition decisions, research and ways to fund education.
UNM Computer and Engineering Assistant Professor Pradeep Sen and his graduate student Soheil Darabi have found a unique way to solve an old problem in the film industry. It can take hundreds of hours of computer time to remove noise from digital images and build a graphically acceptable product. But Sen and Darabi have found a way to filer the noise much more quickly. In this conversation with Karen Wentworth, Sen describes his work.
UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus
The gaps in what anthropologists know about the Magdalenian Age in Europe are enormous. Few human bones have been found, and the information about them is limited. That’s why the discovery of a partially complete human burial at El Mirón Cave is so exciting. It is the first burial ever found from this time period. UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Strauss discusses his latest find in Spain.
University of Michigan Professor of Anthropology John Mitani talks about “Cooperation among Wild Chimpanzees” during a Sept. 19, 2011 colloquium at the University of New Mexico. He is introduced by Assist. Professor of Anthropology at UNM, Martin Muller.
Mitani does extensive field research and is currently working at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda with a large group of chimpanzees. He is interested in cooperation among male chimpanzees and shares his observations in this talk.
UNM graduate student Sam Markwell explores the political, economic and cultural conditions in which the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was established. Markwell focuses on how it has affected pueblo and acequia communities and their claims to water rights within the larger context of change shaping the twentieth century.
This lecture explores how the “Conservancy Project” became and remained the MGCSD through the long and ongoing processes of negotiation, contestation and incorporation among rural and urban communities, financial institutions, municipalities and state and federal government agencies.
Markwell is a graduate of the UNM School of Anthropology and is expanding on work he did during his time as an undergraduate. Currently his studies focus on the cultural politics of water in the South Valley area of Albuquerque with a special interest in environmental justice.
The lecture was cosponsored by the Office of the State Historian Scholars Program, the Historical Society of New Mexico and the Center for Southwest Research.
In this lecture 2011 History Scholar Katherine Massoth discusses ways white Americans reacted to the environment, clothing, and foodstuffs of New Mexican people between 1846 and 1866. Cuisine and couture became areas where daily practices were absorbed and traded between the colonizers and the colonized and the colonizers learned from the Mexican and Native Americans, slowly changing their own ideas of appropriate standards for food and clothing.
Massoth is a Presidential Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa where she received her M.A. degree in United States History in 2008. She specializes in the history of gender and race in the American West. The lecture was cosponsored by the Office of the State Historian and the Center for Southwest Research at UNM.
Runs: 43:58
Prickly Pears, Serapes, Pueblos and Tortillas: Women in the New Mexico Territory 1846-1866[ 19:32 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (462)
Ashley Sherry, 2011 Office of the State Historian Fellow
Ashley Sherry was the LaDonna Harris fellow (2009-2010) and a Center for Regional Studies fellow in the Center for Southwest Research (2011). She is also a scholar with the Office of the State Historian. Sherry’s research and the focus of this talk is the discourse and model of Indigenous advocacy put forth by LaDonna Harris as it pertains to the return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo. LaDonna Harris’ papers and the records of Americans for Indian Opportunity are housed at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library. Sherry is introduced by Beth Silbergleit from CSWR and Dennis Trujillo from the Office of the State Historian. Harris attended the talk and reflects on Sherry’s examination of her life’s work.
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Fashioning Advocacy: La Donna Harris and the Codification of Values in the Case of Taos Blue Lake[ 38:31 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (480)
Aurore Diehl, the Thomas L. Popejoy Center for Regional Studies Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Libraries discusses her research in university archives as she compares two productions done by the Department of Drama at UNM. Diehl is a first year master’s degree student in American Studies. She is interested in the study of gender and sexuality in popular music.
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Carousel of Color: Comparing Set Designs of Two Productions of "Liliom"[ 8:46 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (462)
Jessica Gardener, Center for Regional Studies Fellow
Jessica Gardener, the Center for Regional Studies Beatrice Chauvenet Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library talks about the collection of J.B. Jackson, the Father of Cultural Landscape Studies. Gardener, a Master’s student in Landscape Architecture at UNM curated the collection during her fellowship. Her own research is in the area of upland, dry land restoration and water in the urban environment.
Carolyn McSherry holds the Juan and Virginia Chacon Fellowship and has spent part of the year processing the papers of writer-photographer Nancy Wood. She is a Ph.D. student in the American Studies program. Her research is about the challenges posed to 1930s-era agricultural improvement projects in Puerto Rico and on Navajo lands by people who lived in and knew those landscapes, and by others. She is interested in the relationships between agricultural sciences and colonialism.
James Ellis presents the second lecture in a series tied closely to the University Council on Academic Priorities (UCAP). The talk titled, “Creating the Next Generation of Leaders” features Ellis, Dean of the Marshall School of Business from the University of Southern California.
University of Michigan Professor of Anthropology John Mitani talks about “Cooperation among Wild Chimpanzees” during a Sept. 19, 2011 colloquium at the University of New Mexico. He is introduced by Assist. Professor of Anthropology at UNM, Martin Muller.
UNM graduate student Sam Markwell explores the political, economic and cultural conditions in which the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was established. Markwell focuses on how it has affected pueblo and acequia communities and their claims to water rights within the larger context of change shaping the twentieth century.
In this lecture 2011 History Scholar Katherine Massoth discusses ways white Americans reacted to the environment, clothing, and foodstuffs of New Mexican people between 1846 and 1866. Cuisine and couture became areas where daily practices were absorbed and traded between the colonizers and the colonized and the colonizers learned from the Mexican and Native Americans, slowly changing their own ideas of appropriate standards for food and clothing.
