Community-Engaged Research Lectureship Award

The Annual Community-Engaged Research Lectureship 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.

Nominations for 2025 are now open until 1/16/2026

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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

#	Year	Name	Department / Affiliation	Lecture Title
10^th	2025	Dr. Moises Gonzales	School of Architecture + Planning	Nación Genízara, Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico
9^th	2024	Dr. Kimberly Gauderman	Department of History	Practicing Asylum: Scholars as Expert Witnesses in Latin American Asylum Cases
8^th	2023	Dr. David S. Schade	UNM Distinguished and Regents’ Professor, Division of Endocrinology Chief	Save Your Heart - Save Your Life
7^th	2022	Dr. Johnnye Lewis	Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy	Community-Researcher Partnerships Drive Innovation Science to Help Address Decades of Environmental Injustice.
6^th	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.

#	Year	Name	Department / Affiliation	Lecture Title
5^th	2019-2020	Dr. Andrea Polli	College of Fine Arts	STEAM in New Mexico: The Arts in Service
4^th	2018-2019	Dr. David Gutzler	Earth and Planetary Sciences	The Science and Politics of Climate Change: Tales of a Turbulent System
3^rd	2018	Dr. Sally Davis	Prevention Research Center	Fundamentals of Translating Prevention Science Into Practice: Bridging the Gap through Innovative Community-Academic Partnerships
2^nd	2017	Dr. Claudia Isaac	School of Architecture and Planning	Community Based Planning: Co-Creating Knowledge and Action
1^st	2016	Dr. Nina Wallerstein	College of Population Health: Director, Center for Participatory Research	Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR): Walking the Walk for Health and Social Equity