Gregorio Gonzales - Comanches and Genízaros in Taos

Gregorio Gonzales (Genízaro) is a husband, father, and Ph.D. Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology and Borderlands Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin. Graduating from The University of New Mexico in 2012 with his master’s degree (with Distinction) in Latin American Studies, and earning his B.A. degree (with Honors) from New Mexico State University in 2010, Gregorio’s dissertation work examines the politics of recognition, cultural representation, and subject formation in northern New Mexico through the lens of Genízaro identity within Genízaro communities in the Taos and Chama valleys–including his own. In addition to prestigious fellowships with the Smithsonian Institution and The University of Texas at Austin, Gregorio has been named the 2016-2017 Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research, and has been selected as a 2016 Fellow with the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School for Social Research in New York. Outside of academia, Gregorio is a member of the current 2016-2017 cohort of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) Ambassadors Program, a leadership development effort designed to assist early to mid-career Native American/Indigenous professionals in strengthening, within a cultural context, their ability to build community capacity and improve the quality of life, well-being, and growth of their respective communities, and Indigenous peoples across the U.S. and around the world.