Professor and Director,
School of World Studies

PhD, Tulane University, 1991
MA, Tulane University
BA, Florida A&M University

Email - mbrown@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.1111
Fax - 804.828.0127

Office -
817 West Franklin Street, B-16
Richmond, VA 23284

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Dr. Brown teaches all levels of Spanish language courses, including grammar, composition, linguistics, translation, culture and civilization. He also teaches courses in English on Latinos in the U.S. and indigenous literature and movements. He produced an award-winning video on the current Mayan movement and his translation of Mayan poetry was selected as Finalist for the 2002 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. He is the recipient of numerous Fulbright awards, one of which supported his teaching linguistics at two universities in Guatemala. His research interests include the links between language and identity and the mobilization of those links. He has co-authored three books on the Mayas of Guatemala with the University of Texas Press: ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqdchikel Maya Language (2006), The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift and Revitalization (1998) and Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (1996). Spanish translations of the latter two titles have been subsequently published in Guatemala 

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