KELLY LYTLE HERNANDEZ

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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Office: 6238 BUNCHE Hall
Phone: 310-825-3884
Fax: 310-206-9630
E-mail: hernandez@history.ucla.edu

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Professor Lytle Hernandez received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002. She was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego before joining the UCLA faculty in 2004. Her research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration upon race, migration, and police and prison systems in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her book, "MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," is forthcoming with University of California Press. Professor Lytle Hernandez is the Associate Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and her current research focuses on the social world of imprisonment in Los Angeles between 1890 and 1940.

Selected Publications

“An Introduction to el Archivo Histórico del Instituto Nacional de Migración,” co-authored with Pablo Yankelevich, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies v 34, n 1 (Spring 2009), 157-168.

"Persecuted Like Criminals": The Politics of Labor Emigration and Mexican Migration Controls in the 1920s and 1930s," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies v 34, n 1 (Spring 2009), 219-239.

“The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943-1954,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2006), 421-444.

“Ni blancos ni negros: mexicanos y el papel de la patrulla fronteriza estadounidense en la definición de una nueva categoría racial, 1924-1940,” Cuicuilco v 11, n 31 (Mayo-Agosto 2004): 85-104.

Mexican Immigration to the United States, 1900 – 1999: A Sourcebook for Teachers, published by the National Center for History in the Schools (Fall 2002).

Awards

2007 Oscar O. Winther Award for the best article to appear in the Western Historical Quarterly.

2007 Bolton-Kinnaird Award for best article on the Spanish borderlands.

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