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...