John Edwin Mason

John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography and co-directs the Holsinger Portrait Project. He has written extensively on early nineteenth-century South Africa history, especially the history of slavery, South African popular culture, including the Cape Town New Year's Carnival and jazz, and the history of photography. He is co-curating the Holsinger Portrait Project's 2022-2023 exhibition, at UVA and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century portraits of Black Virginians. He …