2010 Resident Scholar Jamila Bargach, Harvesting Fog and Teaching Tech
Jamila Bargach has spent the majority of her adult life working to improve the lives of women in her home country of Morocco. SAR is proud to have been a nine-month home for Bargach while she explored how a simple technology—a petroleum-based mesh strategically placed...
New Book Published by 2015 Summer Scholar Devaka Premawardhana
Devaka Premawardhana, 2015 Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, is pleased to share the news that his book, Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018 has just been published. Dr. Premawardhana is...
SAR Fellow Deana Dartt Presents at College Arts Association Meeting
Dr. Deana Dartt, Anne Ray Scholar 2017-2018, will be presenting and discussing “Mapping the Camino Indigenous: Reclaiming the Road on our Terms” on February 21, 2018 at the College Art Association’s annual conference in Los Angeles. Two other former Resident Scholars, Nancy Marie Mithlo and Amy Lonetree will join her on stage for the session on Visualizing Genocide: Retelling Native American Survival Through Art.
New York Times Article on Genízaros Cites Scholars Associated with SAR
An article in the January 28 issue of the New York Times discusses the complex history of slavery in New Mexico and emerging scholarship on Genízaros, quoting several scholars connected to SAR, including Gregorio Gonzáles, Katrin Lamon Resident Scholar in 2016-2017, and Moisés Gonzáles, a UNM professor who participated in a seminar on Genízaro history and culture held at SAR in May 2016.
Ceremony Honoring 2017 J.I. Staley Prize Held at MIT
During a well attended event on November 13 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, SAR president Michael F. Brown presented the J.I. Staley Prize to Professor Stefan Helmreich for his book Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in...
SAR Former Weatherhead Fellow and Public Lecturer Dr. Robert L. Kelly interviews with Lorene Mills from New Mexico PBS on his new book, “The Fifth Beginning.”
Dr. Robert L. Kelly is interviewed by Lorene Mills from New Mexico PBS on his new book, “The Fifth Beginning.” The interview was aired statewide.
SAR Scholar in Residence, Nancy Owen Lewis, to Speak at the 2017 Albuquerque Museum Author Festival
The Albuquerque Museum’s second annual Author Festival will be held on Saturday, November 11, at the museum. The event will feature twenty-five New Mexico writers, with four authors giving solo presentations. One of the four is SAR’s scholar in residence Nancy Owen Lewis. At 11 a.m., she will discuss the role of canines in the defense industry during World War II.