John Halit Brown (born 1948) [1] 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 (1914–2002), [2] a poet and cultural attaché who served in Belgium, Mexico and Paris, [3] 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 , TomPaine.com, Moscow Times , and American Diplomacy and occasionally lectured at the ELE public forum in Moscow. [4]
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, when he resigned over the war in Iraq. [5] 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.