Please join us on Thursday, March 26 for the 2026 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture given by Dr. Elizabeth Ellis.

A citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, Dr. Elizabeth Ellis is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University, where she teaches early American and Native American history. She is a scholar of early North America with a focus on diplomacy, borderlands, cross-cultural exchange, and Indigenous politics. Her first book, The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (2022), examined the formation of Native American nations in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

The lecture, "Recording Stories in the Indigenous Middle Ages: Ancient Iconography in Middle America" will start at 5:30pm in Hodgin Hall (Alumni Association building), Bobo Room on the University of New Mexico campus. There will be a reception and book signing held immediately after the lecture. Please contact cntrsw@unm.edu with any questions.