02/18/2025
! 4:00pm, DML 240 • “Black History’s Warning to the World” with Harvard Professor Vincent Brown () 👏 Our 8th Annual Distinguished Lecture!
Professor Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at University. He teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery in the Americas. Brown is the author of “The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery” (Harvard University Press, 2008) and “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” (Belknap Press, 2020), and he is producer of “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness” (2009), an audiovisual documentary broadcast on the PBS series “Independent Lens”, and the short video series “The Bigger Picture” (2022) for PBS Digital Studios.
His book, “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War,” has won the Fredrick Douglass Book Prize, James A. Rawley Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
This esteemed event is made possible by the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund and the USC Dornsife Van Hunnick History Department.
