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Contact: Melissa Bokovoy, 277-2451 April 2, 2004 HISTORY'S BOKOVOY PRESENTS SNEAD-WERTHEIM LECTURE APRIL 20 Melissa Bokovoy, University of New Mexico associate professor of history and Regents' Lecturer, has been selected to present the annual Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lecture, scheduled for Tuesday, April 20 at 2:30 p.m. in the History Department Commons Room in Mesa Vista Hall on the UNM campus. Bokovoy's lecture, “The Politics of Commemoration: Memory and Mourning in Serbia and Croatia, 1918-1941,” is free and open to the public. Bokovoy's topic has cross-disciplinary appeal, a goal of the selection committee, comprised of faculty from history and anthropology. “As the only internal research fellowship available in-house for history, we value it highly,” said Jane Slaughter, history department chair. The Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lectureship in Anthropology and History is awarded annually to a full-time, tenure-track faculty member alternately in the two departments. Annually since 1989, anthropology and history have collaborated in naming one of their faculty to the Snead-Wertheim Lectureship. The lectureship recognizes and supports significant scholarly activity by a faculty person in these two disciplines. The recipient receives a cash award and delivers a public lecture on his/her research during the spring semester. Next year's recipient will be announced at the lecture. The Snead-Wertheim Lectureship, created in 1989 by Jerry and Mary Carole May Wertheim and James E. and Georgia Phillips Snead, was designed to benefit both anthropology and history. Wertheim and Snead are UNM alumni and attorneys in Santa Fe. Honored to receive the recognition, Bokovoy said, “Endowments like the Snead-Wertheim lectureship are significant additions to the intellectual life of any department. Not only am I excited about presenting my research in public, but the additional funding has allowed me to travel to important archives in Serbia to complete the work on this project.” # # # |
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