Dr. Hector M. Callejas is an IDEAL Provostial Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, Indigeneity, politics, culture, and the environment, with a focus on social movements. His research and teaching cover ethnic studies, sociocultural anthropology, and Latin American studies. He uses critical theory and ethnographic methods to examine how organizations mobilize discourses of race and Indigeneity to shape the governance of ordinary people and their surroundings, and the implications of this process for knowledge production and public policy on social inequalities. He has two research areas: Indigenous cultural development and rights advocacy in the western highlands of El Salvador; and environmental justice activism in the Sacramento Valley of California.
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