Department Head
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 Department Head; Professor  
Office: Breland Hall 316  Phone: 575-646-6092  E-mail: lstanfor@nmsu.edu  Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, 1989  Interests: Applied/engaged anthropology, Food Studies, Latin American Studies, agricultural economics 
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Staff
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Lisa Muñoz
Administrative Assistant 
Main Office: Breland Hall 331  Phone: 575-646-2725  E-mail: lmmunoz@nmsu.edu  
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 Curator, University Museum   
Office: Kent Hall 203 Phone: 575-646-4056 E-mail: hpara@nmsu.edu    Education: Ph.D. Archaeology, University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2019 Interests: Museum studies, Native American history, Welsh history, land tenure, landscapes 
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Regular Faculty
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 Assistant Professor 
Office: Breland Hall 303 E-mail: hbrause@nmsu.edu   Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 2021  Interests: Environmental anthropology, transboundary water resources, climate change and natural resource management, globalization of food and agriculture, politics and practices of future-making 
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 Assistant Professor 
Office: Breland Hall 302 E-mail: tchart@nmsu.edu   Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 2014 Interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, Mesopotamian archaeology, paleoethnobotany, foodways, biodiversity, plant resource use, resilience theory 
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 Associate Professor; Director, University Museum  
Office: Breland Hall 305 / Kent Hall 207  Phone: 575-646-4536  E-mail: kljenks@nmsu.edu  Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2011  Interests: Historical archaeology, cultural resource management, Spanish colonialism, Spanish/Mexican community land grants, group identities, oral history, ethnohistory 
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 Assistant Professor 
Office: Breland Hall 306  E-mail: amarks@nmsu.edu   Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, Tulane University, 2023  Interests: Medical anthropology, reproductive healthcare, social movements in Latin America 
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 Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor 
Office: Breland Hall 304 / Biological Anthropology Lab: Breland Hall 94  Phone: 575-646-3276 (Lab)  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, the biology of poverty 
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 Assistant Professor 
Office: Breland Hall 312  E-mail: krichard@nmsu.edu   Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, Washington State University, 2022  Interests: Southwestern archaeology, Fremont and Four Corners regions, pottery analysis, INAA, social identity, frontiers, archaeological field methods 
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 Professor 
Office: Breland Hall 314  E-mail: wiwalker@nmsu.edu  Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1995  Interests: Southwestern archaeology, religion and witchcraft, ritual in prehistory 
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Adjunct Faculty
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 Adjunct Professor 
E-mail: arcantor@nmsu.edu  Education: Ph.D. Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida, 2016  Interests: Biocutural medical anthropology 
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