People - Faculty

Beverly Singer
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies (Ethnology)
University Regents Lecturer
Director, Institute for American Indian Research
At UNM since 2000, on faculty since Fall 2002


mesa@unm.edu
505.277.3027

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Indigenous Peoples of North America (331/531)
  • Intercultural Legacies of New Mexico (340)
  • Culture Study of Indigenous Video (341)
  • Introduction to Field and Laboratory Research (399)
  • Indigenous Self-Representation (530)
  • Video Methods (540)

Education

College of Santa Fe, Social Welfare, BA cum laude 1975
University of Chicago, Social Service Administration, MA 1977
Anthropology Film Center, Santa Fe, Documentary Filmmaking Certificate, 1984
University of New Mexico, American Studies, PhD 1996
Dissertation: “Film and Video Made by Native Americans: A Cultural Examination of Native American Participation in Film and Video Production”


Research

Anthropology and Native American Studies, Director of the Institute for American Indian Research; indigenous film and video, critical studies of images and narratives produced and written by indigenous peoples


Selected Video Productions and Publications

The Answers Lie Within: The Institute of American Indian Arts in Southern Africa, 28 min. video, Kellogg Foundation and IAIA, 2007

Decolonized Education at the University of New Mexico, 24 min. video, Native American Studies, UNM, 2006

The Unveiling of Po’Pay Statue, 10 min. video, Po’Pay Commemoration Symposium, UNM, 2005

Who We Are, 10 min. orientation film for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2004

Desert Rainwater Harvesting, 24 min. video, UNM and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2002

Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001)

“Video America Indigena/Video Native America,” Wicazo Sa Review 16 (2001): 35-53

Oku P’in: Alfonso Ortiz, 1939-1997, 19 min. video, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, UNM, 2000


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