Vincent A Brown, Professor of History and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Office Location:	207 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 613-6340
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Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity
Comparative Colonial Studies
Global Transnational History

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. V.A. Brown, “A Vapor of Dread: Observations on Racial Terror and Vengeance in the Age of Revolution,” in Thomas Bender and Laurent Dubois, eds., Atlantic Revolutions (New York: New York Historical Society, forthcoming 2011). (2011)
2. V.A. Brown, “History Attends to the Dead,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism, No. 31 (March 2010): 219-227. (2010)
3. V.A. Brown, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” American Historical Review, Vol. 114, No. 5 (December 2009): 1231-1249. (2009)
4. V.A. Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2008). Awarded the 2009 James A. Rawley Prize and the 2008-09 Louis Gottschalk Prize. Co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award. Longlisted for the Cundill International Prize in History, sponsored by McGill University. (2008)
5. V.A. Brown, “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. (2008)