University Libraries Appoints New Curator for Latin American and Iberian Collection

Suzanne Michele Schadl is the new curator for one of the treasures at University Libraries, the Latin American and Iberian Collection. She returns to UNM after serving as an assistant professor of history at Roanoke College, and as a visiting instructor of Latin American History at the University of Texas in Austin. She has recently been the director of the Gerald and Betty Ford Library at the Bosque School in Albuquerque.

Photo: Suzanne Michele Schadl

Schadl received her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies at UNM. Her doctoral research included study at several Brazilian institutions, including the Arquivo Nacional, the Academia Nacional de Medicina, the Fundacão Biblioteca Nacional de Brasil, the Arquivo Geral da Cidade in Rio de Janeiro and the historical archives of the Museo Imperial in Petrópolis.

At Roanoke College, she taught courses in Latin American, Caribbean and United States history and at the University of Texas she taught courses on colonial and modern Latin America and on Latin American gender studies. At UNM she will preserve and promote the use of the collection for scholarly research.

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