Danielle Romero (Anthropology) has been hired as the director of the Western New Mexico University (WNMU) Museum in Silver City. A Ph.D. candidate, Romero is a student of professor Barbara Roth. Her research focus is on the archaeology of the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico. The WNMU Museum houses the "largest and most complete collection of Mimbres materials in existence from a single prehistoric Mimbres site, and the largest and most comprehensive permanent interpretative exhibition of Mimbres pottery and artifacts in the world," according to .
