Kate Browne
Katherine Browne is professor of anthropology at Colorado State University. She came to disaster work in the weeks following Katrina, drawn by a love of New Orleans and a desire to contribute something to those who live in this remarkably alive culture. Browne’s longstanding research with Afro-Creole residents of the French Caribbean provided a strong basis for her professional transition. Her two-year collaboration with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginny Martin resulted in Still Waiting: Life After Katrina, a one-hour documentary that aired on PBS in 2007 in more than 300 U.S. cities. Browne continues working with the large, African American family featured in the film to understand the shifting difficulties and opportunities that are part of the legacy of Katrina. She will begin a book manuscript in 2010 about her findings.
Browne’s concern with economics and morality is mapped out in her new book, edited with Lynne Milgram, Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches (2009). Similar concerns as well as her interest in race, class, and gender animate the heart of her earlier book, Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag (2004), published by University of Texas Press. Browne’s newest film explores Afro-Creole women entrepreneurs in Martinique: Lifting the Weight of History (to be released in English in August 2009) was broadcast in its original French language (Au Tournant de l’Histoire)nationally on French TV, and internationally on TV5, the francophone satellite channel in 2008. Browne teaches social theory, research methods, cultural linguistics, globalization, and New Orleans and the Caribbean.
Related Resources from Kate Browne
Documenting Katrina
National Women's Studies Association Journal