Diana De G. Brown
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Iberian Studies; Co-director, Gender Studies Program

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Africana Studies, Anthropology, Environmental and Urban Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Science, Technology, and Society, Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Biography:
B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Fellowships: Fulbright-Hays; Ford Foundation; Lehman College, CUNY; Columbia University. Research and teaching in Brazil and Liberia. Publications include Umbanda: Religion and Politics in Urban Brazil and articles and reviews in Black Brazil: Culture, Identity and Social Mobilization; The State of Siege: Global Process, Identity and Violence; American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Luso-Brazilian Review; Religião e Sociedade; and Liberian Studies Journal. Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. Cochair, Metropolitan Medical Anthropology Association. (1988– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Iberian Studies.