Faculty

Program Director

Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D.

Director of Museum Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences

Participating Faculty and Affiliates

Carl Agee, Ph.D.

Director, Institute of Meteoritics and Meteorite Museum      
Professor Earth and Planetary Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: agee@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-1644

Audra Bellmore, Ph.D.

Curator/Associate Professor: Center for Southwest Research
Adjunct Professor: Museum Studies
Email: abellmor@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-7131

Rachael Cassidy, Ph.D.

Hibben Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow: Museum Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: cassidyr@unm.edu

Joseph Cook, Ph.D.

Curator of Mammals, Museum of Southwest Biology
Professor of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: cookjose@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-1358

E. James Dixon, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: jdixon@unm.edu

Caroline Goldthorpe, MA FRSA

Adjunct Faculty: Museum Studies
College of Arts and Sciences   
Email: cgoldthorpe@unm.edu

Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D.

Professor of Art History: Department of Art
College of Fine Arts
Email: rhernand@unm.edu 
Phone: 505-277-5861

Lea McChesney, Ph.D.

Curator of Ethnology: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Adjunct Faculty
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: lsmches@unm.edu 
Phone: 505-277-1936

Kari Schleher, Ph.D.

Curator of Archaeology: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: kschlehe@unm.edu 

Carla Sinopoli, Ph.D.

Director, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Professor: Anthropology Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: csinopoli@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-0382

Rachel Snow, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty: Museum Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: snowr@unm.edu 

Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D.

Professor of Practice, Museum Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: eastone@unm.edu

Thomas Turner, Ph.D.

Curator of Fishes, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Professor of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences 
Email: turnert@unm.edu; Phone: 505-277-7541

Portia Vescio, MA

University Archivist
College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences
Email: pvescio@unm.edu

Christopher Witt, Ph.D.

Curator of Birds, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
Director, Museum SW Biology
College of Arts and Sciences 
Email: cwitt@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-8169