Spring 2019 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, Africana studies
Kevin C. Quin is a Ph.D. student in Africana Studies at Cornell University with a graduate minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. He holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from DePaul University in journalism, communication, and media; and African and Black diaspora studies. His research interests include African American and LGBT history, political imagination, cultural production, and transnationalism. In 2018, he was awarded the O.N.E. National Gay and Lesbian Archives LGBTQ Research Fellowship at the University of Southern California Libraries. He is the co-coordinator of the Department of English’s Comparative Black Studies Reading Group for the 2018–19 academic year. He previously served as an editorial assistant for Black Perspectives, the leading online platform for public scholarship on global black thought, history, and culture published by the African American Intellectual History Society.