Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of History, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Director of the History Design Studio at

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. His research, writing, teaching, and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora, with a particular emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world.

Life

A native of Southern California, Vincent Brown was educated at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

, and received his PhD in History from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, where he also trained in the theory and craft of film and video making. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals, he is Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map ''Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761: A Cartographic Narrative'' (2013), and he was Producer and Director of Research for the television documentary ''Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness'' (2009), recipient of the 2009 John E. O'Connor Film Award of the American Historical Association, awarded Best Documentary at both the 2009 Hollywood Black Film Festival and the 2009 Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival, and broadcast nationally on season 11 of the PBS series ''Independent Lens''. His first book, ''The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery'' (2008), was co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award and received the 2009 James A. Rawley Prize and the 2008–09 Louis Gottschalk Prize. Dr. Brown can be seen in the 2013 PBS documentary series ''The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross''.

Awards

*2021:

Frederick Douglass Prize The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University Yale University is a Private unive ...

for ''Tacky's Revolt'' *2021:

James A. Rawley Prize (OAH) The James A. Rawley Prize is given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH), for the best book on race relations in the United States. The prize is given in memory of James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the ...

for ''Tacky's Revolt'' *2021:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is an American literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture. Established in 1935 by Clev ...

for non-fiction for ''Tacky's Revolt'' *2020:

Cundill Prize The Cundill History Prize (formerly the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature) was founded in 2008 by Peter Cundill to recognize and promote literary and academic achievement in history. The prize is presented annually to an author who has publis ...

finalist for ''Tacky's Revolt'' *2011:

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

*2009:

Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March ...

for ''The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery'' *2009:

for ''The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery'' *2008–09:

Gottschalk Prize The Gottschalk Prize is awarded for an outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century and carries a prize of US$1,000. It is named in honour of Louis Gottschalk (1899–1975), second President of the American Society for Eighteenth-C ...

for ''The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery''

Works

* * * * * * * *"Blackness in Diaspora," in Plantation Society in the Americas Vol. VI, Nos 2&3 (Fall 1999): 305–12 (1999)

References

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