RESEARCH

Since its inception, the Southwest Center has sponsored dozens of research projects that have enhanced our understanding of trans-border culture and history.

• Linguistic and literary studies of the Yaqui People of Sonora;
• Diachronic analyses of the economics, cultures, and history of northern Mexico;
• Research in comparative urban development;
• Ethnobotanical studies among the Mayo and Guarijío peoples of southern Sonora.
• Multidisciplinary studies of the region that explore cultural dimensions of plant cultivation and land use;
• Southwestern folklore;
• Study and inventory of Sonoran religious art;
• Studies in the architecture and urbanism of northwest Mexico and the American Southwest.
• Water and Food Security in the Southwest Borderlands