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Associate Professor

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    Research and Teaching Interests:

    • History of the Atlantic World.
    • Early American History.
    • African Diaspora.
    • African American History.

    I am an associate professor of history at U.C. Merced.  I received my Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2005.  I was a 2004-2005 Ford Dissertation Fellow and my article "Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World” received the 2005 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians...

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Contact

Kevin Dawson
Office: COB 390
Phone: 209-756-4512
Email: kdawson4@ucmerced.edu

Recent Publications

  • Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
  • Enslaved Ship Pilots in the Age of Revolutions: Challenging Notions of Race and Slavery between the Boundaries of Land and Sea
  • Swimming, surfing, and underwater diving in early modern Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora
  • Enslaved swimmers and divers in the Atlantic world
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