Adam Ewing

Adam Ewing is a Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and received his doctorate from Harvard University, where he studied the history of peoples of African descent. In his work Dr. Ewing focuses on the establishment and transmission of social movements, paying particular attention to the political uses of race, diaspora, and rumor. He is currently working on a book about Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and the global politics of Garveyism.