University Libraries will host the 2009 Center for Southwest Research and Regional Studies Fellows presentations on April 27, April 30 and May 1 in the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library.
Monday, April 27 - Noon
Sarah Wentzel-Fisher, Community and Regional Planning
“Moving Media--The Challenges of Digitizing Audio and Video Tape.”
Sue Taylor - History and James E. Dory-Garduño, School of Law
“Raiders of the Colonial Archives: The Papers, Research and Contributions of France V. Scholes, Eleanor B. Adams and Ward Alan Minge to New Mexico History.”
Thursday, April 30 - 11 a.m.
Katie Galauska, Art Education
“Artists’ Books and Preservation.”
Brian King, History
“A Long and Winding Road: Discovering, Deciphering, and Digitizing New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood 1848—1912 and Beyond”
Jane Sinclair, American Studies
“Then and Now: The Many Faces of The Santa Fe Post Office, The Wool Factory and The Montezuma Hotel.”
Lavinia Nicolae, Anthropology
“UNM History and Politics 1894-1970: A University Archives Digital Collection Project.”
Friday, May 1 - 11 a.m.
Char Peery, Anthropology
“Is All Publicity Good Publicity? Public Services at the CSWR,”
Eric Castillo, American Studies
“La Academia de la Nueva Raza: A Quest for Social and Psychic Change,”
Max Fitzpatrick, Sociology
“Principled Republican Legislators in New Mexico: The Steve Schiff and Ken Kamerman Collections,”
Kari Schleher and Laura York, Anthropology
“Meandering through Time: Preserving History through Digitization of the CSWR Pictorial Collections.”
The public is welcome to attend all of the presentations. The Fellows are sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies and the Center for Southwest Research.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu