Kelly Lytle Hernández
Kelly Lytle Hernández | |
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| Born | Kelly Lytle March 3, 1974 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning |
| Employer | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Organization(s) | Society of American Historians American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Board member of | Pulitzer Prize Board |
| Awards | MacArthur Genius Grant (2019) American Book Award (2018) John Hope Franklin Publication Prize (2018) James A. Rawley Prize (2018) Robert G. Athearn Award (2018) |
Kelly Lytle Hernández is an American academic and historian. Hernández is a tenured professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. In 2019 she received a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant". She is an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board. Since her MacArthur Grant she has been called a "rebel historian", a label she is proud and "honored" to own.