Jason De León

Michael Wells

Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and the director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. He is also executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a 501(c)3 research, arts and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants reunite with their loved ones.

De León comes to Tucson with "Soldiers and Kings," which won the 2024 National Book Award for nonfiction.

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Awards: MacArthur Fellow, National Book Award

Communities: Asian American, Hispanic or Latinx, Mixed Race

Books:

Soldiers and Kings

Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Publishing Group
March 2024
ISBN 9780593298589
400 pages

The Land of Open Graves

Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
University of California Press
January 2015
ISBN 9780520282759
358 pages