Southwestern architecture, language and history will be three topics discussed this April during the UNM General Library's Center for Southwest Research's collection series, "Archiving the Paper Trail."
The presentations feature nine graduate students who have worked on the archival collections through fellowship research during the academic year.
They will share insights on the nature and use of collections that support a wide range of research interests including Southwest architecture, photography, music, grassroots activism, labor history, Native American studies, Navajo language, Spanish colonial-period history and Latin American political history, a University press release stated.
Susan Ruth, an anthropology masters degree student, will kick off the first round of presentations today at 1 p.m. in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room. Her presentation, titled "Indian Affairs Online," will include manuscripts about late 19th and early 20th century New Mexican American Indian groups.
"It's going to be about putting manuscript collections at CSWR so the public can access them," Ruth said. "The manuscripts have legal documents and correspondents leading to late 1800s, early 1900s and concern pueblo groups, Apaches and Navajos."
After Ruth, Gary Van Valen, a history doctoral candidate, will present "Using the Archivo General de Indias Collection to Study Colonial Mexican and New Mexican History."
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Maria Santelli, a Community and Regional Planning graduate student, will present "Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping: A Quarter Century of Resistance" on April 12 at 1 p.m.
Jay Scott Williams, a linguistics doctoral candidate, will follow Santelli with "Dine bizaad doo baa hane': Navajo Language and History in the Robert W. Young Papers." Afterward, Joy Zalkind, a music graduate student, will present "The Music of John Donald Robb."
The UNM Architecture and Planning School will feature two graduate students on April 18, beginning with Joanne Eekhoff's "The John Gaw Meem Archives of Southwestern Architecture: An Orientation" at 11 a.m. Mike Shively, will follow with "The John Gaw Meem Photoarchive."
The Latin American and Iberian Institute will have its chance April 24 when Teresa Eckmann presents "Taking Issue: The Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Poster's" at 1 p.m. F. Scott Worman, an anthropology graduate student, will follow with "The Alfredo Chavez Montoya Papers: A Window of the Labor Movement in the Southwest."
Funding for the fellowships is provided by the UNM Center for Regional Studies and the John Donald Robb Musical Trust for the Robb Fellowship.
For more information about the presentations, call 277-6451.
