1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.

“Our strategy also rests on changing the narrative, which I think of as the ‘hearts and minds’ strategy. The truth...

Susan Eva O’Donovan argues that the political building blocks of freedom were inherent in the project of slavery itself.

The Department of History is excited to welcome its 2026–27 cohort of first-year graduate students to Brown. From monsters and witchcraft to environmental consciousness and Indigenous relationships wi...

A surprising look at how modern capitalism changed sugar from a natural food to a scientific commodity. Sugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other mo...