Alberto Vallejo Reyna

Alberto Vallejo Reyna is an ethnologist from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and a Mesoamerican anthropologist who did his master's and doctoral work at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has spent a lot of time researching the relationship between indigenous spirituality and cultural resistance to colonization, Mesoamerican nawalismo, alternative cultural policies, and social movements. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at ENAH and at the School of Anthropology and History of Northern Mexico (EAHNM), both of which are a part of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). He has also worked as a consultant on educational issues and multimedia languages. While at ENAH, he headed the Degree of Social Anthropology and as Chair of the Department of Research Training. He also served as Academic Secretary for the Center for Advanced Studies of Mexico and Central America (CESMECA) at the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (UNICACH).