Bard Faculty
Diana De G. Brown
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Iberian Studies
Primary Academic Program: Anthropology
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Africana Studies, Environmental and Urban Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Science, Technology, and Society
Biography:
B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Fellowships: Fulbright-Hays; Ford Foundation; Lehman College, CUNY; Columbia University; Bard College, Brazilian Government National Research Council (CNPq). 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;
Liberian Studies Journal;
Journal of Latin American Anthropology;
Medical Anthropology; and
Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. Current research on aging, beauty, and health in Brazil. At Bard since 1988.
Contact:
Phone: 845-758-7295
Website: http://anthropology.bard.edu/faculty/profiles.shtml?id=4639443
E-mail: dbrown@bard.edu
