Tammy L. Brown

Tammy Brown is Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies (Black World Studies Program). She is affiliated with the American Studies Program and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her current book project is a biography of musician Jimi Hendrix tentatively titled Here my Freedom. This book centers on the spiritual dimensions of Hendrix’s music, which are rooted in his Christian Pentecostal upbringing, Native American heritage, and New Age cosmologies prevalent throughout 1960s America. Her first book, City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York, was published in 2015.