Profile
Kevan Malone is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California- San Diego. His research examines the political ecology of urbanization in the San Diego-Tijuana Borderlands during the twentieth century and the role of international diplomacy in the governance of these cities. Kevan has received a graduate fellowship for the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Cities at UCSD’s International Institute, a James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship for work in the UCLA Library Special Collections, a Kenneth and Dorothy Hill Fellowship for research in the UCSD Special Collections and Archives, and a Tinker Field Research Grant. He has also received a Jane and Jiao Fan ’94 Prize for Best Advocate for Graduate Research and represented UCSD at the University of California’s Graduate Research Advocacy Day in 2018. Kevan began his higher education at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and completed his Bachelor of Arts at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He earned a Master of Arts in American studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Kevan’s pedagogy seeks to emphasize that studying history is not about understanding the past for its own stake, but rather about understanding the present. Ultimately, he plans to hold a university faculty position and pursue research that will engage local urban communities, policymakers, and the public more broadly.
