Aggrey Brown, former director of the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, died Nov. 24, 2011. He was 70.
A native of Jamaica, Brown earned a bach elor’s degree in political science from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., in 1967, and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton in 1974. He returned to Jamaica and joined the extra-mural studies department of the University of the West Indies Eastern Jamaica Campus.
Remaining there until 1979, Brown then became the director of CARIMAC at the Mona Campus of the University in Kingston. Between 1979 and 2002, under Brown’s academic and professional leadership, CARIMAC’s current curricula evolved. As a result, he was appointed dean of the faculty of humanities and education in 2002.
While a professor, Brown also was a journalist for the Jamaican Daily News and a commentator/host on Jamaican radio and television. He was a consultant to national and international agencies, including UNESCO, on media and media development in the Caribbean. He retired in 2007 as professor emeritus. During 1996-97, he was the Caribbean regional schools committee chair for Princeton.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Suzanne C. Frances-Brown, and four children.
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