Maxwell Center for
Anthropological Research

Bruce Huckell
Senior Research Coordinator
bhuckell@unm.edu

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The Maxwell Center for Anthropological Research is a Category I Research Center established in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Center brings together those divisions and programs of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology that are currently engaged in field and laboratory research in the various branches of Anthropology including:
Maxwell Museum Laboratory of Human Osteology

Alfonso Ortiz Center for Inter-Cultural Studies,

UNM Office for Contract Archaeology.

Structurally the Center is a research division of the College of Arts and Sciences. It is headed by the Museum Director answerable to the Dean of the College and assisted by a Research Policy Board representing the various branches of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Inquiries regarding research opportunities or affiliation with the Maxwell Center for Anthropological Research should be directed to:
Dr. Bruce Huckell
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
MSC01 1050
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

The mission of the Maxwell Center for Anthropological Research is to coordinate and to promote archaeological, ethnological, and biological anthropology research activities at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, including collections and field research undertaken by museum staff members, affiliated scholars of the center and students.

The center accomplishes this mission by awarding research affiliations to scholars within and outside of the University of New Mexico, by entering into partnerships with other UNM departments in order to investigate research questions of mutual interest, by supporting visiting scholars engaged in research beneficial to the Center’s educational mission at UNM, by organizing professional symposia, by publishing the results of research by affiliated professional personnel and students, and by continuing to seek out and acquire collections that improve the Maxwell Museum’s ability to support research activities.

MCAR Newsletter
August 2002
January 2004

A broader Maxwell Center for Anthropological Research Liaison Committee includes representatives from those departments, area study institutes, and multi-disciplinary programs whose interests converge with those of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and its Research Center. The purpose of the Liaison Committee is to explore areas in which collaborative research partnerships might be developed and to monitor the overall progress of this area of the Center’s activity. Finally, a general Maxwell Center for Anthropological Research Consortium includes all affiliates and staff in a largely electronically based communication network which encourages integration among a membership whose diverse interest might otherwise tend to keep them peripheral to the organization.