Faculty and Staff

Kate Brown, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Washington)

Professor Brown studies and teaches Russian and Eastern European History, focusing on ethnicity and nationalism. Professor Brown's article, "Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana are Nearly the Same Place" appeared in the February 2001 issue of American Historical Review. Her book, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Harvard University Press, 2005) won the American Historical Association's prestigious George Louis Beer Prize, given for outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895. Previously Professor Brown's book won the Heldt Prize awarded by the American Women for Slavic Studies. Dr. Brown is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Social Science Research Center, among others, as well as a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2009-2010.

Office: 701 Administration Building

Telephone: 410-455-2961

Email: kbrown@umbc.edu | Office Hrs