David Montejano (born 1948) is an American sociologist and

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 stu ...

Life

He graduated from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, and from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

with a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. He taught at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

, and the

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...

. He was the former Chair of th
Center for Latino Policy Research
at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. 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 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

Resident Scholar * 1988 Frederick Jackson Turner 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

Works

* John Tutino, ed. (2012)
"Mexican Merchants and Teamsters on the Texas Cotton Road, 1862-1865."
''Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States. ''University of Texas Press. . *
Sancho's Journal: Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets
''University of Texas Press. 2012. . * * *

Vol. 84. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1991. *
Read online at

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Montejano, David 1948 births American sociologists 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers University of Texas at Austin alumni Yale University alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty University of California, Santa Cruz faculty University of New Mexico faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty Living people Historians from California American male non-fiction writers