Education

M.A. History, University of Virginia, 2024
M.A. World History and Cultures with Distinction, King's College London, 2022
B.A. History with Honors, The University of Chicago, 2021

Biography

Charles (Charlie) Brown is a third-year PhD student in the History department. He is broadly interested in twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, with a specific interest in U.S. empire and the culture of social movements. His past research focused on African-American migration and travel to Ghana in the mid-twentieth century, exploring diasporic identity-making through travel and Black American cultural conceptions of "homeland." His master's thesis, "Believe the Children: Re-Reading the Satanic Panic Through Michelle Remembers" explored the making of the Satanic Panic in the 1980s in suburban America through the now-debunked autobiography of Satanic ritual abuse, Michelle Remembers. Charlie's dissertation project explores queer subcultures and military leisure in San Diego, California in the long 1970s. Charlie is a proud San Diegan and avid musician, and holds an M.A. from King's College London and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Courses Taught

AMST2001: Introduction to American Studies (Professors Jack Hamilton and Fiona Ngô)

HIST2014: Fascism: A Global History (Professors Manuela Achilles and Kyrill Kunakhovich)

AAS1010: Introduction to African-American and African Studies I (Professor Nemata Blyden)