Education
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
B.A., DePaul University
Biography
Kevin Quin is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Haverford College. He earned his Ph.D. in Africana Studies with a graduate certificate in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (LGBT) Studies from Cornell University. His research and teaching interests include post-World War II African American political culture, social movements, and gender and sexual nonconformity in the African diaspora. Kevin has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the HistoryMakers, and the Mellon Foundation.
Research
Kevin is currently working on his book manuscript, Queer Visions of Black Power: African American Movements for Sexual Liberation in the Post-Civil Rights Era, that examines how black queer activist-intellectuals and cultural workers shaped the scope and direction of black power organizing. His article, “To Stamp Out the Oppression of All Black People: Ron Grayson and the Association of Black Gays, 1975–1979,” received the 2022 V.P. Franklin Legacy Journal of African American History Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Teaching
Introduction to Africana Studies; The Black Power Movement; Black Queer Studies; The Black Radical Tradition
Publications
“To Stamp Out the Oppression of All Black People: Ron Grayson and the Association of Black Gays, 1975–1979,” Journal of African American History 104, no. 2 (2019): 227-249.