Gregorio Gonzales
Visiting Scholar
Gregorio Gonzales, Ph.D. is Comanche & Genízaro from the Native New Mexico borderlands. Among academicians, Dr. Gonzales is an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor with the Latin American & Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico (UNM). He is also a self-ascribed Postdoc Emeritus & Visiting Assistant Professor Emeritus, completing postdoctoral work and teaching with New Mexico State University (NMSU), The Ohio State University, Colorado College, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his doctorate in sociocultural anthropology in 2017 from The University of Texas at Austin, his master’s degree in Latin American studies from UNM in 2012, and his bachelor’s degree in 2010 from NMSU. His extensive work in Tribal empowerment reaches across Native New Mexico, where he now serves as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) with the Pueblo de Cochiti.
Dr. Gonzales’s research focuses on the resonances of Indigenous social movements and unsettler statecraft manifesting across settler-Anglophone and settler-Hispanophone political paradigms, with emphases spanning Native New Mexico and Aotearoa New Zealand. This research agenda particularly explores the histories and living legacies of Indigenous political creativity when confronting translingual/transhemispheric expressions of colonization and statecraft across the borderlands of Latin America and Oceania.
