Regular Faculty
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Department Head, Professor
Office: Breland 316 Phone: 575-646-5809 E-mail: raalexan@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1993 Interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, historical archaeology of Yucatán, ethnohistory and colonialism, agrarian ecology, fauna analysis
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University Museum Director, Associate Professor
Office: Kent 207 (University Museum) Phone: 575-646-4536 E-mail: farakawa@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, Washington State University, 2006 Interests: Prehistoric American Southwest, lithic technological organization, pottery in Mesa Verde region, sociopolitical organization in tribal-level societies
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Assistant Professor
Office: Breland 301 Phone: 575-646-2109 E-mail: gbadoni@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, 2017 Interests: Native American Visual Culture Studies, Native Women Studies, American Indian Studies
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Associate Professor
Office: Breland 305 / Lab: Breland 307 E-mail: kljenks@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2011 Interests: Historical archaeology, Hispanic colonization and settlement, political and social identities, regional economic systems, analysis of historical-period artifacts, ethnohistory
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Assistant Professor
Office: Breland 304 Phone: 575-646-5935 E-mail: kolszowy@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, Binghamton University, 2014 Interests: economic development and chronic disease risk, sex/gender-based disparities in obesity risk, mental and physical health outcomes associated with natural disasters, child growth and development, and the biology of poverty
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College Professor
Office: Breland 303 E-mail: dpepion@nmsu.edu Education: Ed.D. Adult, Community, and Higher Education, Montana State University, 1999 Interests: Indigenous ways of knowing, participatory research methodology, decolonizing and indigenizing theory and methods, theories and practices of oppression and colonization, critical theory and tribal critical race theory, Native American spirituality and philosophy, Indigenous cultural strengths and resiliency, Native American traditional learning processes, Indigenous leadership concepts, and ethnohistory of the Blackfeet.
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Associate Professor
Office: Breland 312 Phone: 575-646-5935 E-mail: mscott2@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Kentucky, 2010 Interests: Medical Anthropology, public health, transnational migration, Latin America
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Professor
Office: Breland 306 Phone: 575-646-6092 E-mail: lstanfor@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, 1989 Interests: Applied anthropology, Latin American studies, agricultural economics
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Professor
Office: Breland 314 E-mail: wiwalker@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1995 Interests: Southwestern archaeology, ritual in prehistory
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Staff
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Curator, University Museum
Phone: 575-646-4056 E-mail: krotto@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University Interests: Museum anthropology, material culture studies, anthropology of art, curatorship, collections-based research, repair
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Polly Smith
Administrative Assistant
Office: Breland 331 (Department Main Office)
Regular Office Hours: M-F 8 am-12 pm and 1 pm-5 pm Phone: 575-646-2725 E-mail: pollyana@nmsu.edu
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Adjunct Faculty
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Margaret Vega Brown
E-mail: mybvega@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
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E-mail: arcantor@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, 2016 Interests: Biocutural medical anthropology
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Nathan Craig
E-mail: nmc@nmsu.edu Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
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