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Ashley Dawson: Extreme Cities
Ashley Dawson is an author, activist and professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and at College of Staten Island, at City University of New York. Dawson specializes in post-colonial studies and environmental humanities with particular interests in histories and discourses of migration. Since 2004, Dawson has been a contributing member of the Social Text collective. As of September 26, 2012, by appointment of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Dawson has been the editor of the Journal of Academic Freedom. Dawson is part of the organizing collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
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- Ashley Dawson Extreme Cities
- Guest vlogger ashley dawson
- Life and education
- Work
- Monographs
- Edited volumes
- Articles and reviews
- References

Guest vlogger ashley dawson
Life and education

Dawson was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1965 to a British father and a South African mother. In 1973, his family emigrated from South Africa and relocated in Maryland, United States. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the South in 1987, Dawson proceeded to complete his Master's Degree, in English, at the University of Virginia, where he harnessed his interest in Postcolonial studies in the burgeoning program. Specializing in Postcolonial studies, Ashley Dawson received his Ph.D. in English at Columbia University under the tutelage of professors Rob Nixon, Anne McClintock, Jean Franco, and Edward Said, in 1997.
Work
After a stint in the University of Iowa, Dawson moved to the College of Staten Island, at the City University of New York, in 2001. During this time, Dawson authored his first monograph, Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, a cultural history of migration and migrants to the United Kingdom post 1948, which surveys the continual challenge to “the United Kingdom's exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age.”[cite][cite] In 2007, Dawson was invited to serve on the faculty as Associate Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. During this time, Dawson honed his interest in Environmental Humanities and Eco-criticism, in which published extensively. In 2013, as a full-professor, Dawson published his second book: The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature[cite]
Apart from such tomes, Dawson has published extensively in a wide range of subjects in the following journals: African Studies Review, Atlantic Studies, Cultural Critique, Interventions, Jouvert, Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Screen, Small Axe, and Social Text. OR Extinction. Extreme City: Climate Chaos and the Urban Future.
Monographs
Edited volumes
Articles and reviews
New Enclosures, New Formations 69 (Autumn 2010).