CRS Graduate Student Fellowships 2025-2026
Profiles of 2025-2026 NMHR Fellows
Profiles of 2025-2026 CSWR Fellows
Profiles of 2025-2026 CRS Fellows
New Mexico Historical Review (NMHR) Assistantship Recipients
CRS provided approximately $80,000 plus benefits to the New Mexico Historical Review (NMHR) for students to work as editorial assistants for twelve months during FY26. Under the direction of Dr. Durwood Ball, NMHR Director and Editor, the fellows are trained in the essentials of scholarly editing and publishing.
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Richard Maska |
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| NMHR Editorial Assistant |
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Carlyn Pinkins |
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| NMHR Editorial Assistant |
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Sierra Ramirez |
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| NMHR Editorial Assistant |
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Abagail Swanson |
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| NMHR Editorial Assistant |
Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections (CSWR) Assistantship Recipients
CRS provided approximately $57,000 plus benefits to the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections (CSWR) to support three Graduate Student Research Assistant positions during the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Dylan Bernal | Native American Studies | Distinctive Native American Collections |
This student was hired as a research assistant to work with the curator of the Native American Collections at the CSWR in generating new models of cultural management of Native American archival content. This involved identifying archival collections with Native American substance, determining the Indigenous right holders, selecting items and collections to digitize, assisting with tribal outreach, and collaborating with the Native American Studies Department’s library. | ||
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Joshua Heckman | American Studies | CSWR Reference and Instruction |
The Reference and Instruction fellow's duties are to help patrons and researchers in accessing and utilizing CSWR’s unique collections on the U.S. Southwest, Mexico and Latin America, in addition to its Native American collections. This fellowship is rooted in public service and fosters teaching and learning.
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Maria Feliza Monta Jameson | Educational Linguistics | Archival Manuscript Collections Processing and Digital Imaging |
The fellowship involves processing collections, digital imaging and online portal access including scanning, formatting, OCR, digital file naming, archival file storage, and managing projects on NM Archives Online, UNM Digital Repository and New Mexico Digital Collections. These archival collections address the social, legal, religious and military history of Spanish Colonial, Mexican and Territorial periods in New Mexico and northern Mexico and are rich in interdisciplinary research topics including regional Native American History, Borderlands History, Geography, Migration and Commerce. | ||
Center for Regional Studies Fellowship Award Recipients
This year, CRS provided $135,000 in scholarships to twenty-three graduate students enrolled in various departments and programs. The Ph.D. students received $6,000 and the M.A. students received $5,000. Their research titles are listed below.
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Cameron Chavez Reed |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Carving Cultures and Landscapes: Place-based geoscience education to unsettle geologic relations in the Southwest |
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Susana Echeverri Herrera |
| Sociology and Criminology |
| Sublated Indigeneity: Politics of Recognition and Revolution in El Salvador |
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Abdul Ganiu Tanko |
| Community and Regional Planning |
| Developing Spatial Analysis Guidance to Support Community-Based Watershed Planning: Addressing Water Resource Challenges in Underserved Communities Affected by Extraction Activities in New Mexico |
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Joshua Heckman Archibeque |
| American Studies |
| Tales of a Surplus Population: Tierra Amarilla, UNM, and the New Mexico National Guard |
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Lacey Hites |
| Sociology & Criminology |
| How do College Advisors and Students Think and Talk about Advising and Student Success: Illuminating Race-Gender-First Generation College Status (In)Equities in a Southwestern Minority Serving Institution (SMSI) |
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Cynthia Killough |
| Communication and Journalism |
| Community Engagement Liaison |
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Sarah Lease |
| Linguistics |
| Corpus of Children’s Spanish in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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Alejandra Lemus |
| Sociology |
| Transnational Care Webs of Latina Migrants in the United States |
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Kaitlin Lewis |
| Anthropology (SCALA) |
| Advocacy During Times of Uncertainty: Immigration and Faith-Based Advocacy Along the U.S-Mexico Border |
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Ramona Malczynski |
| Geography and Environmental Studies |
| Concrete socionatures – a critical environmental history of Albuquerque |
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Madeline Mendoza |
| English Language and Literature |
| Land, Writing, and Futurity: The Rhetorics of Indigenous Futurisms as Pedagogical Praxis |
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Jessica Nico |
| Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| Speaking Their Language: Advancing NDBI Coaching for Autistic Children with Echolalia from Hispanic, Latinx and/or Indigenous Backgrounds Cascading Coaching Models |
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Marina Perez |
| Art History |
| The Turn of the Archive: Building an Indigenous Zine Archive at the University of New Mexico |
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Isela Rendón |
| LLSS and LAS |
| Adolescent Dynamic Multilingualism: Understanding Translanguaging, Home-Language Practice and Borderland Pedagogy |
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Suyent Rodriguez Candeaux |
| Sociology and Criminology |
| The Color of Solidarity: Insights from Black Cuban Activism on Diaspora Mobilizing |
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Bianca Ruiz-Negron |
| Sociology |
| From Exclusion to Inclusion: Mapping the Trajectory and Impact of Mental Health Discourses for Latinx Immigrants in the U.S. |
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Nahid Samimi |
| Economics |
| Investigating Water Poverty in Albuquerque Using High-Resolution Water and Climate Data |
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Md Shahinuzzaman |
| Individual, Family, and Community Education |
| Promoting Trauma-Informed Care and Social Justice for Children in Special Education: Challenges in Developmental Sciences |
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Holly Smith |
| History |
| Professional Pandemic: Cold War Doctors Strikes in Latin America |
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Hennessey Star |
| American Studies |
| Habits of Delinquency: The Role of Catholic Sisters in the Incarceration of Girls in the Southwest United States |
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Angela Stevenson |
| History |
| Echoes of the South: The United Daughters of the Confederacy in the US West |
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Cassidy Tawse-Garcia |
| Geography & Environmental Studies |
| Collective Futures in New Mexico’s Post-Wildfire Landscapes |
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Natalia Toscano |
| Chicana and Chicano Studies |
| Las Frentes Zapatistas: Tracing the History of Chicanx-Zapatista Exchange |
