CAMWS Necrologies
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This necrology blog offers space to leave comments, anecdotes, and other loving remembrances of CAMWS members who have died. The list is arranged in reverse chronological order with the most recently deceased at the beginning. We are grateful to Ward Briggs, CAMWS Historian, for composing the eulogies that are posted here and to everyone else who contributes to the blog. Thank you for helping us preserve the memory of our departed colleagues.

Michael Brown (2004)

Michael Brown of the University of Illinois died in August of 2004. He was a precise and prolific scholar from his earliest days as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Michigan. He taught at Harvard and was a fellow at the Hellenic Center before coming to the Urbana in 1974. With the publication of 240 articles and 23 monographs he established himself as the world authority on Old Nubian, the earliest ebonics, publishing a dictionary and a grammar of that language.

CAMWS Necrologies
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Michael Brown (2004)

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