• Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson

    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.... Read more about