Kelly Lytle Hernández
Kelly Lytle Hernández is a Professor and Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of several books. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.
Her first book, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, was about Mexican immigration to the United States. Hernandez was awarded the Clements Prize for it in 2010.
Her second book, City of Inmates, about the history of incarceration in Los Angeles, won the 2018 American Book Award.
Lytle Hernandez currently directs the Million Dollar Hoods project, which uses LAPD data to determine the cost of policing and incarceration.
