University of Arizona

Welcome to the Southwest Center

The Southwest Center seeks to define, illuminate, and present, through research, teaching, and publishing, the character of the Greater Southwest: the heartland of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, and its peripheries.
About The Southwest Center
Journal of the Southwest

Folklore

The texture of everydaylife in the Borderlands; artful expressions in words, customs, and artifacts.

Architecture

Contemporary and historical urbanism in the Southwest and Northwest Mexico; vernacular forms and materials.

Ethno-Botany

Geographies of food, farming, and ranching; indigenous cultures and environment in NW Mexico and the US Southwest.

Anthropology

Political Ecology of the American West and Northwest Mexico; Ethnohistory and historical anthropology.