Manuel Callahan is an insurgent learner and convivial researcher. He is also Research Director for the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy. Callahan’s work explores three interwoven areas: the US/Mexico border and Greater Borderlands historically and in the present; Indigenous struggles across the Americas including Zapatismo and Zapatista struggles emerging from Chiapas; and convivial research, a community-based research approach that engages autonomous struggles throughout Greater Mexico. This research includes engaging conviviality as a praxis, especially as a site of convivial tools to confront what W.E.B Du Bois named as a democratic despotism. He also participates in the Universidad de la Tierra, Califas and remains an active member of Acción Zapatista.