Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2011
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Madagascar (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Nepal (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Well-being and the Moral Worlds of Refugees awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2011 - 2012
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Story+: Collecting Oral Histories of Environmental Racism and Injustice in the American South awarded by Duke Story+ 2022
  • Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: AAA Lab: Art, Archive, Asylum; or Race and Mental Health in the Southern United States awarded by Duke Office of the Provost 2021
  • Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: Collecting Oral Histories of Environmental Racism and Injustice in the American South awarded by Duke Office of the Provost 2021
  • Dix Hill and the Public Humanities: A Creative Site-Making Symposium awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant 2018 - 2019
  • Empathy and Trauma: Exploring the Moral and Physical Injuries of War Among US Military Veterans awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant 2017 - 2018
  • Rights and Resources in Madagascar: a conference and concert awarded by Duke Africa Initiative 2012
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Angelo, D., K. M. Britt, M. L. Brown, and S. L. Camp. “Private Struggles in Public Spaces: Documenting COVID-19 Material Culture and Landscapes.” Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 154–84. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.43379.
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    • Brown, Margaret L. “Reclaiming Lost Ancestors and Acknowledging Slave Descent: Insights from Madagascar.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 46, no. 3 (July 2004): 616–45. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417504000283.
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  • Book Sections

    • Brown, Lou. “Madagascar's cyclone vulnerability and the global vanilla economy.” In The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters, edited by Eric Jones and Arthur Murphy, 241–64. Rowman Altamira, 2009.
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    • Brown, Margaret L., and Lou Brown. “Compensating for Distrust Among Kin.” In Distrust, edited by Russell Hardin, 167–91. Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
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  • Book Reviews

    • BROWN, MARGARET L. “Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar by David Graeber.” American Ethnologist. Wiley, May 2010. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01262_23.x.
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    • Brown, Lou. “HISTORY AND MEMORY IN THE AGE OF ENSLAVEMENT: BECOMING MERINA IN HIGHLAND MADAGASCAR, 1770-1822 by Pier Larson.” Africa Today. Indiana University Press, 2005.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • RACESOC 393T: Bass Connections Race & Society Research Team 2023
  • RACESOC 396T: Bass Connections Race & Society Research Team 2023
  • RACESOC 796T: Bass Connections Race & Society Research Team 2023
  • CULANTH 223S: Global Stories, Local Issues 2022
  • DOCST 223S: Global Stories, Local Issues 2022
  • ICS 260S: Global Stories, Local Issues 2022
  • CULANTH 223S: Global Stories, Local Issues 2021
  • DOCST 223S: Global Stories, Local Issues 2021
  • ICS 260S: Global Stories, Local Issues 2021
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  Advising & Mentoring

  • College advisor to 1st and 2nd year undergraduates

  Available to mentor:

  • Undergraduate
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Service to Duke

  • Duke Office of Durham & Community Affairs. University Coalition for Civic Engagement. 2020  2020
  • RIDE - Reimagining Doctoral Education . 2017 - 2018  2017 - 2018

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