William A. Calvo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

William A. Calvo-Quirós is a new Associate professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Chicana/o Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara (2014) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University (2011).

His current research studies the relationship between state violence, imagination, religiosity, and the spirituality along the U.S. - Mexico border. He looks at this region not only as a socio-political space of conflict and struggle but simultaneously as a 2,000-mile strip of "haunted" land, inhabited by many imaginary creatures, popular saints, and fantastic tales, all of them as expressions of the sophisticated subversive epistemic traditions in the region. His book Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions (Oxford University Press, 2022) investigates the migration of “catholic” vernacular devotions and the racial tensions around popular religiosity within the US, as well as the politics of surveillance and control around Latino religiosity in the last one-hundred years. His other areas of interest also include Chicana/o Mexican American aesthetics design and urban planning, Chicana feminist and decolonial methodologies, and the power of empathy, and forgiveness in order to formulate new racial, gender, sensual discourses. You can find more about his research, and teaching at www.barriology.com

He has been involved with NACCS for over 20 years, since his first conference in Los Angeles (2003). He has served NACCS as a chair of the Joto Caucus (2012 – 2014) and more recently as At-Large Representative (2020 – 2023). He is a founding member of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS).

SECRETARY

Term:  Two years

Duties:

 Prepare and distribute minutes of all meetings of the board within 2 weeks of each meeting.  Work with Chair and Executive Committee to prepare agendas for all meetings.  Work with Associate Director to set up conference call meetings.  Maintain the Meeting agendas and minutes, and the Calendar for the Board.  Attend monthly Conference Call meetings, ten months during the year.  Attend midyear meetings, serve on committees as designated, and attend and participate at Annual meeting.  During annual meeting participate in board meetings.  Participate in NACCS for Beginners and the Leadership Orientation, and participate in the general business meeting.  During the annual meetings work with Chair and Executive Director as needed to develop on-site reports and minutes.  Maintains all records of meetings and prepares annual report of minutes and communications for official reporting to meet incorporation requirements. Prepare the annual Statement of Information to be submitted to the Secretary of State (California) identifying the officers of the organization.  Prepare the annual Compliance of Minutes to be filed with the state of California.  With executive committee [Chair, Chair-Elect, Past-Chair, Treasurer, Executive Director and Associate Director] discusses actions to move on board pertinent to the communication and reporting of policies, fiscal well being, maintenance and standing of non-profit standing, etc.

Maintain copies of all official documents of the organization.  Maintain copies of all official annual reports and documents of the organization.  Must be knowledgeable of NACCS bylaws and procedures.