Free event: WSU to host anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason De León
OGDEN, Utah — Weber State University will host renowned anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason De León on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Val A. Browning Center’s Allred Theater. 
De León will discuss his trailblazing work on the human toll of undocumented migration in the U.S. borderlands of the Sonoran Desert, combining archaeological and ethnographic methods to document life and death on the migrant trail.
De León is executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a research, arts and education collective that raises awareness about migration issues globally while helping families of missing migrants to reunite with their loved ones. He is also the author of the award-winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.
“De León’s innovative work breaks new ground in combining all the tools of anthropology to create a gripping and profoundly moving account of the violence faced by migrants as a consequence of border policies,” said Mark Stevenson, associate professor of anthropology at Weber State.
Sponsored by Browning Presents!, the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and the Rosemary Conover Endowment Lecture Series in Anthropology, the event is free and open to the public.
To RSVP or learn more about the event, visit the Browning Presents! website.
Kayla Singh Griffin, Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities
801-626-6431, kaylagriffin2@weber.edu- Contact:
Kayla Singh Griffin, Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities
801-626-6431, kaylagriffin2@weber.edu