Kelly Lytle Hernández

Kelly Lytle Hernández is a Professor and Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the author of several books.[1] She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.[2]

Kelly Lytle Hernández
Alma materUC San Diego (BA)
UCLA (PhD)
OccupationHistorian
EmployerUniversity of California, Los Angeles
AwardsMacArthur Genius Grant (2019)
American Book Award (2018)

Her first book, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, was about Mexican immigration to the United States.[3] Hernandez was awarded the Clements Prize for it in 2010.[1]

Her second book, City of Inmates, about the history of incarceration in Los Angeles, won the 2018 American Book Award.[4][5]

Lytle Hernandez currently directs the Million Dollar Hoods project, which uses LAPD data to determine the cost of policing and incarceration.[6]

References
  1. "Kelly Lytle Hernandez". Department of History. UCLA. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  2. "Kelly Lytle Hernández - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  3. Contreras, Russell (July 30, 2016). "Trump's Border Wall Isn't a New Idea". The Hattiesburg American. p. A7 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Corey, Mary F. (July 16, 2018). "A Holocaust in Slow Motion: On Kelly Lytle Hernández's "City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, And The Rise Of Human Caging In Los Angeles, 1771-1965"". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  5. Chi, Jeannette (August 13, 2018). "2018 American Book Award Winner, Kelly Lytle Hernández, "City of Inmates" - Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies". Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  6. Ostergaard, Maddie (September 28, 2018). "UCLA professor uplifts LA communities, colleagues in Million Dollar Hoods Project". Daily Bruin. Retrieved November 22, 2019.


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