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Barbara B. Brown

Director of Outreach College of Arts and Sciences African Studies Center Address: 232 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617-353-7303 Email: bbbrown@bu.edu Website: http://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/index.html

Languages: French, Spanish, Setswana

Ph.D. 1979 Boston University, M.A. 1971 Boston University, A.B 1968 Smith College. Outreach Director since 1990. Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University (1999-2000). Overseas Experience: Botswana, Benin, South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya and Tanzania. Research on South African and Botswana politics. Scholarly articles in African Affairs and Botswana Notes and Records. Education articles in Faces and Social Education. Co-director of three NEH summer institutes and of one Fulbright G.P.A. Publications in a variety of formats: “How Big Is Africa?” an educational poster; “The Kenyan Kids Kit,” a set of traveling kits for elementary classrooms; “Medieval Africa”: a PowerPoint presentation (publ: Social Studies School Service, 2007); “Forget Not Our Sisters: women under apartheid,” a slide-tape show.