Upcoming Events

Conversation with Dr. Nēpia Mahuika and Dr. Rangimārie Mahuika

Please join the Institute for American Indian Research and the Center for the Southwest in welcoming scholars from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Dr. Rangimārie Mahuika and Dr. Nēpia Mahuika will be holding a panel for History and American Studies students interested in comparative Indigenous studies. This event will be held in the History Common Room, on Friday, November 15, 2019, from 12pm-1pm. Lunch will be provided.


News

Friday, September 29th, 2017, the Department of History is hosting the first annual Homecoming Lecture!  This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr. Durwood Ball at 3:30 pm in the History Commons in Mesa Vista Hall. 


Center for the Southwest

MSC06 3760
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

Physical Location:
Mesa Vista, 2061

Phone: (505) 277-4344
Fax: (505) 277-6023

Center for the Southwest

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Welcome to the Center for the Southwest

The Center for the Southwest is an institution devoted to the study of the region spanning the vast Mexican territories that became part of the United States by 1853.  The Southwest is a terrain with deep and multiple histories, a complicated and volatile present, and remarkable potential.  This region, comprising the whole of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, and Nevada, and parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming, has for millennia been home to shifting and contentious array of indigenous peoples. 

The Center for the Southwest recognizes this contested, layered past, linked with the larger histories of the Americas and the peoples who have survived, adapted to, and shaped repeated political upheavals.  At the same time, we also recognize that the region has, for nearly a century and a half, belonged to the United States, and now encompasses the most dynamic, fastest growing part of that nation.  We also seek to understand this region in the context of globalizing forces that at once disrupt and reinforce regional differences. 

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