Center for Regional Studies Fellows present work on UNM Libraries Collections
Four 2005-2006 graduate fellows, working on Center for Regional Studies manuscript/archival collections, will give short presentations about their projects on April 4 at 10 a.m. in the Willard Reading Room at Zimmerman Library. Funded by the Center for Southwest Research, the efforts of these fellows will result in online guides that will help researchers easily find information in the collections. The guides should be available by the end of the spring semester.
Antonia Roybal
Roybal's talk will be “New Mexico Tribes & Fair Market Value: Was the 5th Amendment followed when tribes sold their rights to land and water in New Mexico?” Her presentation is based on material from the Richard Hanna collection. Hanna is a former New Mexico Supreme Court justice and practicing attorney in the area of Native American land, water and mineral rights.
Lavinia Nicolae
Nicolae has been working with the records of the New Mexico Green Party. The title of her talk is “The Green Party: The move toward a three party system in New Mexico and U.S. Politics.”
Jason Strykowski
Strykowski's talk is “William A. Keleher: Maker and Marker of History.” His work has been processing William A. Keleher's papers. Keleher, an author of several books on history of the southwest and a practicing attorney left an extensive collection of history and territorial publications along with his correspondence and research materials for his books.
Meghan Bayer
Bayer's talk is titled “Archives of the University Architect: Development and Construction of UNM's Historic Landscapes and Buildings.” Her work has been with the records of the University Architect and UNM's Facility Planning Department.
The Center for Regional Studies provides fellowships for graduate students to work on projects to make research collections at the Center for Southwest Research more accessible to the public.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at March 21, 2006 04:54 PM