Kathleen M. Brown is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

specializing in early American and

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, the history of comparative race, gender, and sex, and the history of abolition and

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. She is currently the David Boies Professor of History at the

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Life and career

Brown received her B.A. from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the

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. She received a

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in 2015. Her first book, ''Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia'', won the

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John H. Dunning Prize The John H. Dunning Prize is a biennial book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book in history related to the United States. The prize was established in 1929, and is regarded as one of the most prestigious national h ...

, while her second book, ''Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America'', won the

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and the Society for the History of the Early American Republic's Best Book prize. She has been a participating speaker in the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lectureship Program.

Works

* ''Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World)'' (Yale University Press, 2009/2011) . * ''Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia'' (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) .

References

Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers American women historians Historians of the United States Wesleyan University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Pennsylvania historians Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub