| 词条 | Roxanna Brown |
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BiographyBrown was born on a farm in Illinois, United States, and received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1968. She then became a journalist in South Vietnam, where her brother was serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Interested in Asian art, she earned a master's degree from University of Singapore in 1973. She married and made her home in Bangkok, but she was run over and nearly killed in a traffic accident in the 1980s, which cost her a leg and seriously damaged her hearing. Nevertheless, in 2004, she received a Ph.D. from UCLA, working on the so-called Ming Gap, a 300-year interval when China blocked exports of ceramics. A production boom across Southeast Asia resulted. Brown's analysis of ceramics recovered from shipwrecks of the period "revolutionized the understanding of trade patterns in the region," according to colleagues cited in the Los Angeles Times.[3][4] Arrest and deathWhile employed as a curator by Bangkok University, she became involved in the investigation of the smuggling of art objects from Thailand to the United States, particularly from the Ban Chiang cultural tradition, assisting U.S. Government agents. However, she was herself implicated in the possible false authentication of stolen objects, based on material found during January 2008 raids on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego. Brown was arrested on May 9, 2008 for alleged wire fraud when she arrived in the United States to deliver a lecture at an Asian art symposium at the University of Washington.[5] She was found dead in her cell at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac on May 14.[6] Naturally, the charge was dropped immediately after her death at the facility.[7] The question of her actual involvement in the smuggling ring, the justification for her arrest, and her lack of medical attention after it, was the subject of a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times.[3][7][8] Medical malpractice lawsuitA medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by her son, Taweesin (Jaime) Ngerntongdee, after it was determined that Brown had died of peritonitis caused by a perforated ulcer.[5] The suit claimed she had suffered stomach problems in the detention center and that other inmates took her to a shower after a guard would not respond when she vomited something that "smelled like excrement." When Brown requested for help after the 10 p.m. lockdown on May 13, the guard told her she would have to wait until the morning for medical attention, according to the suit.[7] Detention center officials acknowledged there was no overnight medical staff on duty and took the case to mediation. The federal government settled the case for $880,000 in July 2009. Attorney Tim Ford stated part of the settlement stipulated that Brown's death would be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.[5] BooksShe was author of a number of academic books on Southeast Asian ceramics. Among the ones that established her early reputation are:
Among her later works are:
References1. ^{{cite news |title=Scholar of Asian Art Is Found Dead in U.S. Detention Center |author=Marcia Ann Overland |work=Chronicle of Higher Education |date=September 14, 2008 |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholar-of-Asian-Art-Is-Found/40974}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Roxanna}}2. ^Rooney, Dawn F. 2008. "Roxanna Brown (1946-2008)". Orientations. 39, no. 6: 108. OCLC 3. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-roxanna12-2008sep12-story.html|title=Her career revived, scholar turns tipster|last=Felch|first=Jason|date=September 12, 2008|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 4. ^Brown, Roxanna M. The Ming Gap and Shipwreck: Ceramics in Southeast Asia. Thesis (Ph. D.), University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. WorldCat 5. ^1 2 {{cite news|publisher=The Seattle Times|author=Mike Carter|title=U.S. pays $880,000 in death of detained antiquities expert|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009425908_prisondeath07m0.html|accessdate=July 25, 2010|date=July 7, 2009}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Inmate Locator: Roxanna Maude Brown|url=http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Brown&Middle=Maude&FirstName=Roxanna&Race=&Sex=&Age=&x=&y=|publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons|accessdate=July 21, 2010}} 7. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-roxanna13-2008sep13-story.html|title=Once an aid in a federal probe, antiquities scholar becomes a key target|last=Felch|first=Jason|date=September 13, 2008|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-roxanna11-2008sep11-story.html|title=A passion for art, a perilous pursuit|last=Felch|first=Jason|date=September 11, 2008|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 22 : 1946 births|2008 deaths|People from Illinois|American curators|American art historians|Art curators|Columbia University alumni|Alumni of SOAS, University of London|University of California, Los Angeles alumni|University of Singapore alumni|Writers from California|Writers from Illinois|Prisoners who died in United States federal government detention|20th-century American historians|War correspondents of the Vietnam War|American women historians|American women in the Vietnam War|Women war correspondents|Women art historians|20th-century American women writers|American expatriates in Thailand|American amputees |
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