Kevin Waite

Kevin Waite is an associate professor of history at Durham University (UK) and the author of West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (UNC, 2021). West of Slavery won the 2022 Wiley-Silver Prize from The Center for Civil War Research and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize as well as the SHEAR Manuscript Prize. He's currently writing a history of the life and times of Biddy Mason, a Georgia slave turned California real estate entrepreneur. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Post, among others.