Ashley Dawson

For the English actor and singer, see Ashley Taylor Dawson.

Ashley Dawson
Born
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Alma materUniversity of the South
Scientific career
FieldsCultural studies, Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Studies
InstitutionsCity University of New York

Ashley Dawson is an author, activist, and professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. Dawson specializes in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and environmental humanities with a particular interest in histories and discourses of migration.[1] Since 2004, Dawson has been a contributing member of the Social Text collective.[2] Dawson was co-editor of Social Text Online from 2010 to 2014 and, by appointment of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), he was also editor of the Journal of Academic Freedom from 2012 to 2014.[3] He has published and edited numerous books, and his essays have appeared in journals such as African Studies Review, Atlantic Studies, Cultural Critique, Interventions, Jouvert, New Formations, Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Screen, Small Axe, South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.[4]

  1. ^ "ashley dawson". ashley dawson. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011.
  2. ^ Dawson, Ashley. "Ashley Dawson – Social Text". Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  3. ^ "AAUP Welcomes New Editor for Journal of Academic Freedom". AAUP. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  4. ^ "ashley dawson". ashley dawson. Retrieved 9 October 2017.