Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Jason De León, was featured in Anthropology News as a 2016 AAA Award recipient. The article mentions De León's book, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, and calls him a "brilliant young anthropologist and a charismatic public intellectual". 

http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/11/02/congratulations-to-the-2016-aaa-award-winners/