Allan Charles Dawson

Allan Charles Dawson is Professor of Anthropology at Drew University. His research is concerned with issues of ethnicity and identity in West Africa and in the African Diaspora; ethnicity and globalization; identity and violence; religious innovation; chieftaincy; and traditional religious practice in the West African Sahel. More recently, Dawson engages questions of Blackness and Afro-Brazilian identity within the context of the broader Black Atlantic world.