Kathleen Brown
Associate Professor of History
Kathleen Brown is a historian of gender, and race in early America and the Atlantic World. Educated at Wesleyan and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she is author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill, 1996), which won the Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association for best book by a junior scholar. Brown is also author of numerous articles and essays. She has been a fellow at the Omohundro Institute for Early American Studies at William and Mary, at the American Antiquarian Society, and a summer fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. Her current research project is a history of cleanliness in early America. Brown offers a wide range of courses on such topics as comparative slavery, colonial America, women in American history, gender and sex in early America, and cultures and contact in the Atlantic World.
Courses Taught (As Schedule Allows)
For current course listings, consult the Course Directory.
- HIST 203 Witches, Whores, & Rogues
- HIST 345 Gender in American History to 1865
