Richard D. Brown

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History

Richard Brown earned his PhD at Harvard and taught as a Fulbright lecturer in France and at Oberlin College before joining UConn in 1971. A past president of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic and the New England Historical Association, he is the first director of the Humanities Institute in CLAS. He has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. His current work, which he describes in this podcast, explores the meaning of equality and equal rights in the early American republic.

Podcast

http://www.history.uconn.edu/people/brown.php