Gregory S. Brown

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Gregory S. Brown
Born
February 3, 1968, New York, NY
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania,
Columbia University
Known for Early Modern French history, Age of Enlightenment, French Revolution, eighteenth century France
SpouseJessica Brown 2006-2017 (div) [1]
ChildrenAaron Brown, Sophia Brown [2]
Scientific career
Fields History
Institutions Columbia University
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor Isser Woloch

Gregory Stephen Brown is an American historian specializing in French history and cultural History. His research regards "Enlightenment France and issues of 'self-fashioning,' performance and printing, patronage, and censorship." [3] He is the General Editor and Senior Research Fellow at the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, for the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. [4]

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From 2009 through 2012, he served on the campus and state board of the Nevada Faculty Alliance, which is the Nevada conference of the American Association of University Professors, serving as president from 2010 - 2012. From 2012 - 2016, he served as Vice Provost of University of Nevada, Las Vegas with responsibility for faculty affairs, academic and research policy and strategic planning.

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