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PhD Candidates in Art History Awarded Prestigious LAII Fellowship

Beth Norwood, Bre Reiss, and Ellie Kane, three PhD candidates in art history, have all been awarded a Latin American and Iberian Institute Fellowship.
August 23, 2024

In addition to insurance and a stipend, the fellowship is renewable for a second year. For this scholarship, our students faced off against PhD candidates from departments like Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, and History.

The LAII is part of a wide-reaching scholarly community at The University of New Mexico. Graduate students in departments across campus engage in dynamic research that spans disciplines and reaches across geographic boundaries. To support their efforts, the LAII offers competitive PhD Fellowship awards to doctoral students to support dissertation research and writing related to Latin America.

We congratulate our fellows on this remarkable achievement!

Learn more about the Latin American and Iberian Institute Fellowships >

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250 Years of Survival: Art Alum and Professor Eric Garcia’s New Mural

The first thing that hits you about Eric Garcia’s new mural at the Albuquerque Museum, “Since 1776…”, is the sheer size of it. I wanted to first play with the architecture,” Garcia said during the ceremony devoted to him, his team and the mural itself. “I wanted to do something that no one had done before. I wanted to go bigger.”