UNM Professor Moises Gonzales honored as 2025 CERL awardee

Join Lobos across The University for an evening of back-to-back celebrations beginning with UNM's annual PI reception followed by the annual Community Engaged Research Lecture (CERL).

Both events will be held in George Pearl Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 12 in celebration of UNM researchers across campus. Registration is required to attend the events.

• PI Reception | 4-6 p.m. | In-person ONLY
• CERL with Moises Gonzales | 6-7:30 p.m. | In-person + Zoom

The PI Reception
The PI Rreception is an annual celebration hosted by The Office of the Vice President for Research to honor the research and scholarship conducted by our Lobo researchers every year. It is a wonderful opportunity to honor remarkable achievements, nurture valuable connections, and potentially ignite new collaborations-all within the vibrant company of fellow scholars who share an unwavering passion for discovery. So, PIs be sure to mark your calendars for this annual event that promises to be both intellectually stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable!

UNM's 2025 CERL Honoree:
Moises Gonzales is a professor of Urban Design and the chair of the Community and Regional Planning Program within the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM.

He also serves as the director of the Resource Center for Raza Planning, which is a community outreach center within the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, whose mission is to provide technical assistance in the areas of community development, design, and natural resource planning for traditional communities throughout New Mexico.

In the classroom, Gonzales focuses on physical planning and urban design as well as historic preservation of the Southwest. He is co-editor of the recent book, Nación Genízara, Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico, and co-author of the book, Slavery in the Southwest Genizaro Identity, Dignity and the Law.

Lecture: Querencia, Reciprocity through the Co-Production of Knowledge
Querencia is a cultural landscape framework of resiliency embedded in traditional land-based communities throughout New Mexico. Gonzales' lecture will discuss how Querencia is also a methodology for community engaged scholarship through community reciprocity in the co-production of knowledge. Individuals must register to attend.

About the CERL
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.