Marta Weigle

Bio: Marta Weigle is former University Regents Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. In 2005 she received the inaugural State Historian's Award for Excellence in New Mexico Heritage Scholarship from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. Among her numerous New Mexico books are the co-edited volumes Telling New Mexico: A New History and Spanish New Mexico: The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection (both Museum of New Mexico Press) and the co-authored The Lore of New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press).