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Historians in Conversation, episode 26 - Prof. Gregory Brown

How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories. 

Historians in Conversation Episode 26: Prof. Gregory Brown, University of Nevada in Las Vegas, University of Oxford

Prof. Gregory Brown is professor at the Department of History at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and Voltaire Foundation senior research fellow at the University of Oxford. He has received his PhD at the University of Columbia. Among his research interests is early modern France and in particular its intellectual history. The episode focuses on the career possibilities in the US, educational opportunities and challenges presented by current global socio-political situation.

Among his publications:

Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress (revised ed.) with Isser Woloch. (NY:

Norton, 2012).

• Literary Sociability in the French Enlightenment and Revolution: The Society of Dramatic

Authors and the Comédie Française, 1776–1793 (London: Ashgate, 2006).

• Cultures in Conflict: The French Revolution (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2003).

Hello, my name is Mikhail Green and I welcome you to the 26th episode of my podcast, Historians in Conversation, which is hosted by the University of Lodz in Poland. My guest today is Professor Gregory Brown from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and the University of Oxford. He specializes in 18th century France and today we will be not talking so much about his research but about his academic career. And Gregory will tell us how actually he made a career in the United States, what w...