John H. Brown (scholar)
John H. Brown is a Senior Fellow at USC Center on Public Diplomacy where he regularly publishes the Public Diplomacy Press Review.
The son of Dr John Lackey Brown (born 1914, died 22 November 2002),[1] a poet and cultural attaché who served in Belgium, Mexico and Paris,[2] [3][4] Brown is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, where he has taught courses about public diplomacy.
A consultant for the Library of Congress's "Open World" exchange program with the Russian Federation, he has written for the Washington Post, The Nation (on-line), TomPaine.com, Moscow Times, and American Diplomacy; occasionally lectured at the ELE public forum in Moscow.[5]
Brown, who received a Ph.D. in Russian History from Princeton University in 1977, was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1981 until March 10, 2003, where he resigned over the war in Iraq.[6] He served in London, Prague, Kraków, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow. He is co-author (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: A Guide to Archival and Manuscript Materials in the United States. His other published writings include research on Russian history as well as articles in the Polish and Serbian press.
Notes
- ↑ http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089255.html
- ↑ http://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/on-my-diplomat-poet-father-john-l-brown.html
- ↑ http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_07-09/brown_cao/brown_cao.html
- ↑ http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_07-09/brown_pubdipl/brown_pubdipl.html
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- ↑ Interview with John H. Brown, Ret. State Department, Foreign Service Officer, Echo Chamber Project, July 15, 2004. Retrieved on July 25, 2007.
External links
- USC Center on Public Diplomacy
- USC Center on Public Diplomacy Wiki Profile
- "Morality Mission: How Karen Hughes Sees Her Job," by John Brown, Common Dreams, November 23, 2005
