Faculty

Program Director

Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D.
Director of Museum Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: LPTraxler@unm.edu

Participating Faculty and Afiliates

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.
Postdoctoral 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

Rachel Snow, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty: Museum Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: snowr@unm.edu

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

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