• Jason de León
  • Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
  • Lecture Date: 2017-01-30

Professor de León directs the Michigan Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a long-term study of clandestine migration between Mexico and the United States that uses a combination of ethnographic, visual, archaeological, and forensic approaches. His book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (UC Press, 2015) won the 2016 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.

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