Anthropology & Sociology at UTEP

On her awards for her New Book
Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster (NYU Press 2025) https://nyupress.org/9781479828135/disabled-power/

2026 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

2026 Donald W. Light Book Award for Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

2026 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award, given by the Disability in Society Section of the American Sociological Association.

Congratulations to Johnathan Cereceres on receiving the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants!

https://www.asanet.org/academic-professional-resources/asa-grants-and-fellowships/asa-doctoral-dissertation-research-improvement-grants-asa-ddrig/2026-ddrig-recipients/

https://www.asanet.org/academic-professional-resources/asa-grants-and-fellowships/asa-doctoral-dissertation-research-improvement-grants-asa-ddrig/

Congrats to Dr. Angela Frederick! Her book has just won the Eliot Friedson Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Medical Sociology Section.

Enroll in the exciting Fall 2026 elective Culture of the Caribbean with Dr. Victor Vazquez! 🌴🌎

Discover the history, culture, politics, music, and societies of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic through an engaging anthropological perspective. Enjoy cool lectures, documentaries, podcasts, films, and audiovisual analysis while exploring the richness and diversity of Caribbean life and traditions.

Don’t miss this unique and culturally enriching course!

Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor (NAIS)
Fall 2026 Courses at UTEP

This semester’s featured courses include:

• Indigenous Cultures of North America
• Native American Women’s Health
• Popular Archeology
• Material Culture and Museums
• Religion & Culture
• Feminisms of the 1960s & 70s
• Nahuatl 1: Language as Resistance
• Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture

For more information:
Dr. Olga Lauter — [email protected]

Religion & Culture for Fall 2026

This course explores the complex interplay between religion and culture across diverse societies and historical periods. Through readings and discussions grounded in anthropology, sociology, history, and religious studies, the course investigates how religious ideas, practices, and institutions influence and are influenced by cultural traditions, identities, and perspectives.

Course Listings:

ANTH 3301 / 17948
SOCI 3301 / 17497
RS 3350 / 17953
WS 3351 / 18302
NAIS 4350 / 17531

Dr. Olga Lauter

T R (Tuesday & Thursday)
12:00 PM – 1:20 PM

Congratulations to Dr. Victor Vázquez and co-author Dr. Howard Campbell on their new peer-reviewed publication! 🎉

Based on his recent fieldwork conducted during his sabbatical semester in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, this work highlights scholarship that bridges the Caribbean and the borderlands.

¡Felicidades!

👉https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/04/24/structural-consequences-of-economic-crisis-and-us-militarization-in-the-caribbean-drug-scarcity-crime-escalation-and-narco-entrepreneurship-in-puerto-rico/

Hello Miners! 🌍

Register today for World Culture (ANTH 1302) with Dr. Vázquez — Summer I Online 2026 (June 8 – July 3). This is an engaging, flexible, and eye-opening online course.

📩 For more information: [email protected]

Thank you so much for your support

Join us!

April 16, 4-6 pm in centennial museum!