With 29 grants offered to students and recent alumni for the 2021-22 academic year, Brown earned the No. 1 spot as the country’s top producer of Fulbright winners, marking the fourth time the University earned the distinction.
Seth Rockman recently published, "Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei" (in German), a volume derived from his previous talk which considers the implications of 'new materialism' for the history of slavery and the field of general labor history.
In 2021, Cynthia Brokaw delivered three talks as part of the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in London, England. Her first talk titled, "Spreading Culture Throughout the Land: Woodblock Publishing and Chinese Book Culture in the Early Modern Era" explored why woodblock printing or xylography, remained, throughout China’s pre-modern history, the major print technology.
Tom Devaney completed his PhD in history at Brown University in 2011, specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rochester, and he has previously taught at the University of Indiana South-Bend, and the University of Puget Sound.