David Montejano
Encyclopedia
David Montejano is an American sociologist, and historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

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Life

He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

, and from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 with a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

, University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
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, and the University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico
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. He is Chair of the Center for Latino Policy Research at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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In 1995, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. From 1992-1998, he was State Commissioner of the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Awards

  • 1987–1988 National Endowment for the Humanities
    National Endowment for the Humanities
    The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...

     Resident Scholar
  • 1988 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
    Frederick Jackson Turner Award
    The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history.It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award....

  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, at Stanford
  • School of American Research Resident Scholar in Santa Fe
  • Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow.

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