Lowell Brower

Lowell Brower

Lecturer on Folklore & Mythology
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Lowell Brower is the Head Tutor / Director of Undergraduate Studies and a Lecturer for the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard. 

Working at the intersection Folklore, Africana Studies, Anthropology, and Refugee and Migration Studies, Lowell's research focuses on African oral traditions, communal storytelling, and cultural reimagination in the aftermath of violence, displacement, and profound social rupture. Fluent in Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda, Lowell has conducted extensive ethnographic and folkloristic fieldwork in communities throughout Rwanda and Tanzania.

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