Michael P. Brown

Background

Michael P. Brown was born on July 21, 1966 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. He is the son of James A. Brown.

Education

In 1988 Michael P. Brown graduated from the Clark University with Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1990 he received a Master of Arts from the University of British Columbia and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1994.

Career

Michael P. Brown served as an editorial assistant for "Society and Space" at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1993 - 1995. In 1995 he became a lecturer in geography at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and worked until 1997. In 1997 he was invited to the La Trobe University as a scholar at National Centre for Social Research in HIV/AIDS.

In 1998 Brown was appointed an acting assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. In the same year he became an assistant professor of geography. In 1998 Brown was also a visiting scholar in geography at the University of Auckland. He was lecturer at colleges and universities, including University of Colorado.

Michael P. Brown is an author of "Replacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy" (1997) and "Closet Geographies: From the Body to the Globe". He also was a contributor to books "Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing" (1998), "Mapping Desire" (1995), "Geographies of Resistance" (1997). He is contributor to periodicals, including "Environment and Planning", "Urban Geography", "Political Geography Quarterly", "Society and Space", and "International Journal of Urban" and "Regional Research".

Achievements

• Michael P. Brown is best known for his books "Replacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy" and "Closet Geographies: From the Body to the Globe".

Works

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  • Closet Space: Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe

    (Is the closet just a metaphor? This book provides a highl...)

    2005
  • Replacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy

    (This book uses an ethnographic study of one gay community...)

    1997

Membership

Michael P. Brown is a member of the Association of American Geographers, of the Canadian Association of Geographers, of the New Zealand Geographical Society, and of the Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Father:

James A. Brown