The University of New Mexico

Scholarships, Fellowships and Jackson Lecture

    New Mexico Heritage Scholarships

           Four to six Scholarships of up to $5,000 each are awarded annually to students in the Graduate Certificate Program in Historic Preservation and Regionalism.  The scholarships were initiated and funded for five years by New Mexico Heritage Hotels, Inc.  They are now funded by a challenge grant from an anonymous donor, and matched by other supporters of the HPR program.  Scholarships are open to those applying to or already enrolled in the certificate program.  Students awarded this scholarship receive a prorated amount at the time of taking each course toward the certificate.  Courses previously taken or currently enrolled in toward the certificate do not qualify. 

          Application deadlines for the scholarships are March 1 and November 1.  Inquire about current availability before applying.

          George Pearl Fellowships in Preservation and Regionalism

          Architect George Clayton Pearl (1923-2003) may have been the most committed to regionally-responsive design and to historic preservation of his 1950s generation of modernist-trained architects.  As the primary designer for of the lending New Mexico firm of Stevens, Mallory, Pearl and Campbell (now SMPC), he designed an estimated 1,550 buildings, likely more than anyone else in the history of the state.  He also was a founding member or stalwart of every Albuquerque, New Mexico and national preservation group beginning with the stirrings of the grass roots preservation movement in the late 1950s.

          In the 1990s, he established the George Pearl Endowment, augmented by a generous bequest at the time of his death, which provides substantial support to the courses and programs of the Historic Preservation and Regionalism Program.  Two separate George Pearl Fellowships were established in 2004 with matching funds from the NM state legislature.  Pearl Fellows are selected from distinguished professionals and educators in preservation, landscape architecture, planning, and architecture—typically one from New Mexico, and another from outside the state.  In addition to presenting a public lecture, the Fellow also typically contributes to the intellectual life of the school through a short course, design workshop, or other program:

2006   Chester Liebs, educator and preservationist, Santa Fe, N.M.

          Stefanos Polyzoides, architect and urbanist, Pasadena, California

2007   Beverly Spears, architect and landscape architect, Santa Fe, N.M.

          Kak Slick, historic preservationist, Santa Fe, N.M.

2008   Douglas Kelbaugh, architect and urbanist, University of Michigan

          Arnold Valdez, preservation planner, Santa Fe, N.M.

2009   Yukio Nishimura, urban conservation planning, Tokyo University

2010   Stephen Mouzon, architect, urbanist, and photographer, Miami

2011   Kim Sorvig, landscape architect, Santa Fe

2012   Ellen Dunham-Jones, architect, Georgia Institute of Technology

         June Williamson, architect, The City College of New York/CUNY

           Annual J.B. Jackson Lecture

           The cultural landscape historian and theorist J. B. Jackson (1909-1996), who lived for nearly fifty years in and near Santa Fe, had a long relationship with the UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P) as guest lecturer and occasional instructor.  Through his magazine, Landscape, in the 1950s and 60s; his subsequent books of essays; lectures around the country; and teaching at Berkeley and Harvard, he catalyzed the rise of cultural landscape studies in the United States.

          At the time of his death, he left a substantial bequest to the SA&P.  The J. B. Jackson Endowment supports student field study and improved course offerings (especially in the Landscape Architecture program).  In addition, the school has chosen to honor his generosity and the example of his intellectual work by establishing the J. B. Jackson Chair of Cultural Landscape Studies, and an annual J. B. Jackson Lecture each spring.  The lecture also honors those who have made significant contributions to cultural landscape studies: Are books or articles written usually underlined or italicized?

2001  Chris Wilson, New Regional Initiative for New Mexico

2002  Henry Glassie, Landscape and Life: Lessons from Tradition

2003  Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Rebuilding Central Park

2004  Dolores Hayden, A Field Guide to Sprawl

2005  Paul Groth, Making Modernity: Bungalow Neighborhoods in the American West

2006  Setha Low, The Architecture of Fear: Gated Communities in America

2007  Daniel Arreola, The Picture Postcard Mexican Housescape: Visual Culture and Domestic Identity

2008  Kenneth Helphand, Defiant Gardens

2009  Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, J. B. Jackson and “The West Cure”

2010  Marc Treib, Noguchi's Landscapes: The Garden as Sculpture

2012  William deBuys, Hotter and Drier: Living the Life of the 21st Century Southwest