Vincent Brown
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Address:
Harvard University
Department of History
CGIS South 430
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.6155
Fax: 617.496.3425
Email: brown8@fas.harvard.edu
Courses
History 1611: American Revolutions in the Atlantic World
History 1612: African Diaspora in the Americas
Biography
Vincent Brown is a multi-media historian with a keen interest in the political implications of cultural practice. He 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, "Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness," broadcast on PBS in 2009.
Selected Publications
“Social Death and Political Life in the History of Atlantic Slavery: Between Resistance and Oblivion,” American Historical Review (forthcoming).
"The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2008)
“Eating the Dead: Consumption and Regeneration in the History of Sugar,” Food and Foodways: History and Culture of Human Nourishment, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 2008): 117-126.
"Spiritual Terror and Sacred Authority in Jamaican Slave Society," in Slavery & Abolition Vol. 24, No. 1 (April 2003): 24-53 (2003)
"Blackness in Diaspora," in Plantation Society in the Americas Vol. VI, Nos 2&3 (Fall 1999): 305-12 (1999)