Professor Johnson to Advise on California Museum Exhibit on Mass Deportations

Professor Kevin R. Johnson has joined the advisory committee for a forthcoming California Museum exhibit on forced deportations of Latina/o Californians. Legendary farm labor and civil rights organizer Dolores Huerta and UCLA history Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández also are advisors.

The advisory committee met for the first time on March 13.

Johnson has written and spoken extensively about the forced deportations of Mexican citizens and Mexican Americans in the 1930s under what was collectively known as the “Mexican Repatriation.” Johnson wrote a 2005 Pace Law Review article on the mass deportations.

Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.