Hector Callejas (mestizo/Latino) received his Ph.D. from the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Department of Anthropology. He researches and teaches Latin American and Latinx studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, sociocultural anthropology, human geography, and decolonial methodologies. He received his MA and BA from UC Berkeley.
His research has been funded by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies; a Graduate Student Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation; and a Chancellor’s Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received competitive research awards from various units at Cal: the Native American Studies program, the Center for Race and Gender, the Myer’s Center for Research of Native American Issues, and the Ethnic Studies department.
Callejas is from the predominantly Mexican Latinx community in Sacramento, California. His parents immigrated from El Salvador and Guatemala during the civil wars in the early 1980s.