Cecil H. Brown | |
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Born | Cecil Hooper Brown II 1944 United States |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Linguist, anthropologist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Tulane University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Northern Illinois University |
Main interests | Mayan languages |
Cecil H. Brown (born 1944) is an American linguist and anthropologist. He is a distinguished research professor emeritus of anthropology at Northern Illinois University. [1] His work relates to comparative linguistics and ethnobiology. [2]
Brown attended Tulane University for his undergraduate and graduate degrees,receiving a B.A. in 1966 and PhD in 1971. [3] As an undergraduate,he studied British social anthropology abroad for one year. He then became interested in the work of Stephen A. Tyler and the new field of cognitive anthropology. Brown conducted fieldwork with the Huastec people,a Mayan group of northern Veracruz,Mexico. He investigated cognitive anthropology of kinship,color,disease,plants,and animals. In 1982 he attended his first ethnobiology meeting in Colombia. [4]
In 1998,Brown became a distinguished research professor. [5] He was a visiting scientist in the linguistics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in 2001. [6] After 32 years of teaching anthropology and linguistics,Brown retired from teaching in 2002. [2] [1] In 2015,Brown was awarded the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award from the Society of Ethnobiology. [7]
Brown is co-founder of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP). [1]
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