The AAUP has announced the appointment of Ashley Dawson as the new editor of the online AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom. Dawson, who will begin his term as editor with the 2013 volume of JAF, is a professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His scholarly work covers many areas, including imperialism, ecocriticism, globalization, postcolonial studies, and academic freedom. Dawson is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain and a coeditor of three other books.
