Ashley Dawson

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. Since 2004, Dawson has been a contributing member of the Social Text collective. 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. 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.'' Provided by Wikipedia