Kevin Dawson
Kevin Dawson is associate professor of history at the University of California, Merced, and the recipient of the 2022–23 Kemble Fellowship in Maritime History at The Huntington. He is the author of Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 Harriet Tubman Prize from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Rethinking Maritime History from Below
Posted on Oct. 24, 2023

For Some Enslaved Africans, Water Was a Savior
Posted on Feb. 7, 2023