Jonathan Calvillo is an Associate Professor of Latinx Communities at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
His work examines how distinct Latine populations build communities of belonging through faith and creativity, often amidst systemic exclusion. As a sociologist and ethnographer, his expertise resides at the intersections of Latine lived religion, ethnoracial formation, civic engagement, urban migration, and grassroots creative movements. Calvillo has published three monographs: The Saints of Santa Ana: Faith and Ethnicity in a Mexican Majority City (2020), In the Time of Sky-rhyming: How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles (2024), and When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance: Reflections on Borderlands Pentecostalism (2024). The son of Mexican immigrants, he was born and raised in Southern California.
Research Area: Immigration and American Society
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