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Vincent Brown

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Vincent Brown

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
Southern California, USA
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Southern California, USA → Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Career

Occupations
Historian, Professor, Author, Documentary Filmmaker, Essayist, Critic
Affiliations
Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (affiliation)

Education

University of California, San Diego
Degree: BA
Country: United States
Duke University
History
Degree: PhD
Country: United States
Received a PhD in History; also trained in theory and craft of film and video making.

Awards

Frederick Douglass Book Prize
2021
Work: Tacky's Revolt
Organization: Gilder Lehrman Institute / Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Result: 受賞
James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)
2021
Work: Tacky's Revolt
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Result: 受賞
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2021
Work: Tacky's Revolt
Category: ノンフィクション
Organization: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Result: 受賞
Cundill History Prize
2020
Work: Tacky's Revolt
Organization: Cundill Prize
Result: 最終候補（ファイナリスト）
Guggenheim Fellowship
2011
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞（フェローシップ）
Merle Curti Award
2009
Work: The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Result: 受賞
James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)
2009
Work: The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Result: 受賞
Gottschalk Prize
2009
Work: The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Organization: Gottschalk Prize
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Tacky's Revolt: The story of an Atlantic slave war

2020 History (Non-fiction)

A scholarly account of Tacky’s Revolt in 18th-century Jamaica that situates the uprising within the political and cultural dynamics of the Atlantic world.

SlaveryRebellion and resistanceAtlantic worldPolitical culture

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

2008 History (scholarly)

Analyzes how death and the politics surrounding it shaped power relations and cultural practices in Atlantic slave societies.

Death and mortalityPower relationsSlave societiesRitual and memory

Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761: A Cartographic Narrative

2013 Digital humanities / Cartographic narrative

An animated thematic map project reconstructing the 1760–61 slave revolts in Jamaica as a cartographic narrative.

Digital scholarshipSpatial historyVisualizing resistance

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

2009 Documentary film

A television documentary on anthropologist Melville Herskovits; Brown served as producer and director of research.

History of anthropologyCultural representationPolitics of scholarship

Bibliography

  • Tacky's Revolt: The story of an Atlantic slave war (Harvard University Press, 2020)
  • The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2008)
  • Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761: A Cartographic Narrative (AxisMaps project, 2013)
  • Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (documentary, 2009)
  • Article: "Social Death and Political Life in the History of Atlantic Slavery" (American Historical Review, 2009)

Adaptations

  • Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness — television documentary (producer/director of research)

Translations of Works

  • English edition of Tacky's Revolt (Harvard University Press, 2020)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Scholarly yet narrative historical writingEmphasis on archival sourcesActive use of digital scholarship and visualization
Recurring Motifs
Death and memoryResistance and rebellionMobility of the Atlantic worldRitual and religious practice

Legacy

A leading scholar of Atlantic slavery who has contributed to historical scholarship and public dissemination through interdisciplinary methods (digital humanities, film). Recipient of multiple major awards and influential in both academic and public history.

Academic Societies

  • Organization of American Historians

Archives

  • Harvard University Archives (related materials)

In Popular Culture

  • Featured in PBS series 'The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross'

Trivia

  • Holds the Charles Warren Professorship at Harvard University.
  • Won multiple awards in 2021 for 'Tacky's Revolt'.
  • Led and curated the digital cartographic project 'Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761: A Cartographic Narrative'.