Vincent Brown

Vincent Brown

Charles Warren Professor of American History
Vincent Brown
  • Region(s): Africa; the Atlantic World
  • Time Period(s): 18th century; 19th century
  • Theme(s): History of Slavery; History of Empire; Colonialism

     

    Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, is a multi-media historian with a keen interest in the political implications of cultural practice.  He directs the History Design Studio and teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery. Brown is the author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2008) and producer of an audiovisual documentary about the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens. He is currently writing a book about African diasporic warfare in the Americas.

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