Kelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and African American Studies and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. A 2019 MacArthur Fellow, she is the author of the award-winning books Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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