The Annual Community-Engaged Scholarship Lecture Award recognizes exceptional scholarly work that embodies UNM's commitment to community engagement and profoundly and systematically affects the relationship between the university and the larger community in a positive and meaningful way. This is the highest award for community-engaged scholarship bestowed by the University of New Mexico.
The nominee must be an active, full Professor or exceptional Associate Professor at the time of the nomination is submitted. The scholarship or the creative work of the nominee must be of the highest quality and should be tied to the faculty member's expertise.
2025 nominations now open!
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For Questions about this Award please contact:
Tito Busani
Chair, Research Policy Committee
busanit@unm.edu
Gena Garcia
Administrative Coordinator
Ofc of the University Secretary
emajsmom@unm.edu
2024: 9th Annual Community Engaged Research Lecturer: Dr. Kimberly Gauderman
List of Honor: Past Annual Community Engaged Research Lecturers
| 9th |
2024 |
Dr. Kimberly Gauderman | Department of History | Practicing Asylum: Scholars as Expert Witnesses in Latin American Asylum Cases |
| 8th |
2023 |
Dr. David S. Schade | UNM Distinguished and Regents’ Professor, Division of Endocrinology Chief | Save Your Heart - Save Your Life |
| 7th |
2022 |
Dr. Johnnye Lewis | Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy | Community-Researcher Partnerships Drive Innovation Science to Help Address Decades of Environmental Injustice. |
| 6th |
2020-2021 |
Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale | American Studies | Dikos Ntsaaigii-19 Building the Perfect Human to Invade: A Dine Feminist Analysis of the Pandemic & the Navajo Nation. |
| 5th |
2019-2020 |
Dr. Andrea Polli | College of Fine Arts | STEAM in New Mexico: The Arts in Service |
| 4th |
2018-2019 |
Dr. David Gutzler | Earth and Planetary Sciences | The Science and Politics of Climate Change: Tales of a Turbulent System |
| 3rd |
2018 |
Dr. Sally Davis | Prevention Research Center | Fundamentals of Translating Prevention Science Into Practice: Bridging the Gap through Innovative Community-Academic Partnerships |
| 2nd |
2017 |
Dr. Claudia Isaac | School of Architecture and Planning | Community Based Planning: Co-Creating Knowledge and Action |
| 1st |
2016 |
Dr. Nina Wallerstein | College of Population Health: Director, Center for Participatory Research | Community based Participatory Research (CBPR): Wallking the Walk for Health and Social Equity |