Jeffrey S. Brown
Dr. Jeffrey Brown (United States, Transatlantic Modernism/Modernity, American Therapeutics) earned graduate degrees from the State University of New York at Brockport (MA History), York University (MA Social and Political Thought), and was awarded a PhD in History from the University of Rochester before joining the Department in 2002. His dissertation explored the influence of vitalist theories of mind and metaphysics on American intellectual and political culture early in the twentieth century. He is currently preparing this work for publication under the title, Vital Moment: The Philosophy of Life and the Politics of Meaning in Modern America, 1900-1925.
He has delivered papers at a variety of forums including, most recently, a discussion of the evolution of the U.S. urban health-care "safety net" before the G.W. Corner Society for the History of Medicine in Rochester, NY. This presentation drew upon research in the history of the provision of health services for the medically indigent begun as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester in 2001 and 2002. His essay, "Being Present, Owning the Past, and Growing into the Future: Temporality, Revelation, and the Therapeutic Culture" has appeared in the volume The River of History: Trans-National and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past, ed. Peter Farrugia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005).
Dr. Brown is currently the Department of History's Director of Honours.
Contact Information:
Office: Tilley 113
Phone: (506)458-7425
