Center for
Latin American Studies

Associate Director, Academic Programs and Student Affairs Center for Latin American Studies 319F Grinter Hall P.O. Box 115530 Gainesville, FL 32611-5530 Tel: 352-273-4708 Fax: 352-392-7682 E-mail: rfbrown@latam.ufl.edu

Research Interests

Late colonial and modern Central American history; history of the colonial Gulf South and colonial Mobile

Geographic Expertise

Central America

Curriculum Vitae

Courses

LAS 2001 Latin American Civilization/Contemporary Latin America
LAS 4935/6938 Revolution and Post-Revolution in Central America
LAS 6220 Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies

Background

Richmond Brown is an Associate Professor in Latin American Studies and the Associate Director for Academic Programs. His responsibilities relate primarily to overseeing the MALAS program, the undergraduate minor, and graduate and undergraduate certificate programs in Latin American Studies at UF.

He received M.A (1986) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in history from Tulane University, and a B.A. in history from Spring Hill College (1983). He is the author of Juan Fermín de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729-1796 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997) and the editor of Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century, Nebraska Press, 2007.

Richmond is a former President of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, and a former President of the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (LACS/SHA). He is currently the managing Editor of the LACS/SHA newsletter.