Dr. Vincent Brown, noted scholar, historian, and filmmaker, whose unique explorations into the nature of historical slavery have garnered him many awards, will deliver the inaugural Dr. Genna Rae McNeil Endowed Black History Month Lecture.
Professor Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History, Professor of African American Studies, and Interim Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is also founding director of Harvard’s History Design Studio and teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery in the Americas.
Brown is a prolific scholar and filmmaker and is the author of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2008), producer of Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, an audiovisual documentary broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens and is most recently the author of Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press, 2020).