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Civic Genealogies of Place, Race, Exile and Belonging

Lois Brown, PhDLois Brown is Foundation Professor of English and director of the Center for the Studyof Race and Democracy at Arizona State University. She is a public historian and ascholar of African American literature and culture whose teaching and research reflecther deep interest in 18th and 19th century literature and the understudied Americanlandscapes and people that deepen our understanding of possession, loss, nation,redemption and triumph. Brown’s essays have appeared in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers andThe New England Quarterly and her books include Black Daughter of the Revolution: ALiterary Biography of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Encyclopedia of the Literary HarlemRenaissance and the only modern edition of the 1835 Memoir of James Jackson, TheAttentive and Obedient Scholar, which is the earliest known American biography of afree child of color.In addition to co-curating museum exhibitions at the Boston Public Library and theMuseum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket, Professor Brown is afeatured scholar in the PBS documentary The Abolitionists, the Emmy-Award winningPBS documentary Black in Arizona and she is a scholar and consultant on theforthcoming Ewers Brothers/Ken Burns documentary on Henry David Thoreau.