A historian of the African Diaspora, his research interests include Black Internationalism, Black Power, and the Black Pacific. Swan's 2022 Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (NYU Press), which was awarded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2023 Book Prize for Best Book in African American History. His 2020 Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida) was awarded the 2021 African American Intellectual Heritage Society's Pauuli Murray Book Prize. He is also the author of Black Power in Bermuda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). His next book, Born as a Sufferer, explores Black internationalism in the long 1980s through Reggae, Dancehall and Sound System Culture.
Hailing from the island of Bermuda, Professor Quito Swan is an award-winning historian of Black internationalism, Black Power, and the Black Pacific and a scholar of race, public policy, and the African Diaspora. Quito J. Swan is Professor of History and Africana Studies at George Washington University, and Director of its Africana Studies Program.
Dr. Swan is the author of three monographs, Black Power in Bermuda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020), and the forthcoming Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism, and the African World (New York University Press, 2022). Swan's next book projects include Black El Dorado: Bermuda and the Black Radical Diaspora(under contract with University Press of Illinois) and Born As A Sufferah: The Insurgent Soundscapes of Dancehall Music, which explores Black internationalism at the turn of the twenty first century through the soundscapes of Reggae, Dancehall and Sound System cultures.
