Kara L. McCormack Lecture

Authors

Kara L. McCormack, University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

5-7-2018

Abstract

Center for Regional Studies Visiting Scholar Lecture

Dr. Kara McCormack has explored how Roswell has taken a different route, pursuing an identity not based on its multicultural past. In this lecture, she discusses the economic and cultural factors that led to the city’s embrace of UFO tourism. She arrives at new assessments stemming from her study of the transcriptions of interviews conducted in 1985 by Ramon Burrola for the Mutualistas Project, as well as conversations with residents of Roswell.

Comments

Kara McCormack received her Ph.D. in American Studies at UNM and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Thinking Matters Program at Stanford University. Her book, “Imagining Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die,” was published by the University of Kansas in 2016.

Recommended Citation

McCormack, Kara L.. "Kara L. McCormack Lecture." (2018). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/crs_presentations/28