Jason De León

Jason De León is an anthropologist who studies migration from Latin America to the United States, particularly that of clandestine migrants crossing the Mexico–United States border. De León holds the Loyd E. Cotsen Endowed Chair of Archaeology, is Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit research/arts/education collective aimed at documenting and raising awareness about migration issues globally.

Since 2009, he has traveled frequently to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona to collect artifacts left behind by migrants trying to gain access to the United States. He was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2013, and a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. His Undocumented Migration Project includes more than 9000 objects, some of which are on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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