John H. Brown is a Senior Fellow at University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy where he regularly publishes the Public Diplomacy Press Review.
Background
The son of Doctor John Lackey Brown (born 1914, died 22 November 2002), a poet and cultural attaché who served in Belgium, Mexico and Paris, 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.
Career
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 (on-line), TomPaine.com, Moscow Times, and American Diplomacy. Occasionally lectured at the ELE public forum in Moscow. He served in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow.
He is co-author (with South 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
Membership
Brown, who received a Doctor of Philosophy in Russian History from Princeton University in 1977, was a member of the United States. Foreign Service from 1981 until March 10, 2003, where he resigned over the war in Iraq.