Quito Jame’ Swan is an award-winning scholar of the global African Diaspora. He is Professor of Africana Studies and History at The George Washington University, where he directs its Africana Studies Program. The author of a number of books on the history of Black internationalism, his latest is Born a Sufferah: Dancehall Music’s Insurgent Soundscapes (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). His Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (New York University Press, 2022) received the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2023 Best Book in African American History Award. His Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020) won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize. His work has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, including those garnered from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies and Australia’s University of Queensland.In 2020, Swan was an expert witness for the Bermuda Government’s Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses caused by segregated hotel development in the 1920s and the building of WWII US military bases. His writings have appeared in the Radical History Review, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights, the Journal of African American History, the International Journal of Africana Studies, and Funambulist Magazine. He has also taught at Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, andHoward University. He is currently working on two manuscripts—one on the life and memory of Marcus Garvey(Bloomsbury Publishing) and the other a sweeping narrative of the global surveillance of Black radicalism told through popular culture.