Cynthia Brown

Professor Emerita and Adjunct in History Program

BA Duke University

MAT Johns Hopkins University

PhD Johns Hopkins University

Cynthia Brown says, "I like to teach at Dominican because classes are the perfect size (15-30) and students bring a great diversity of viewpoints."

Hobbies 

Travel, Grandchildren, Gardening, Reading, and Knitting

Undergraduate Courses Taught

• HIST 1000 Eyewitness to History
• HIST 3008 World History and Geography (offered every spring)
• CQHI 3510, Whole Earth History,  Spring 2005, Spring 2007

Published Works 

• Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Teachers College Press, 2002.
• Connecting with the Past: History Workshop in Middle and High Schools, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994 
• New Faces in Our Schools: Student-Generated Solutions to Ethnic Conflict, with Karen Jorgensen, San Francisco: Zellerbach Family Fund, 1992.
• Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History, New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1988
• Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights

• Movement, Navarro, CA: Wild Trees Press, 1986, American Book Award, 1987, re-issued by Africa World Press, 1990.
• Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom, Berkeley, CA: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, 1981.