Kevin Dawson
Kevin Dawson is an associate professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced and is the author of several award-winning articles. His book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) received the Harriet Tubman Prize from the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in NYC. The award recognizes the best U.S.-published, nonfiction book on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World.