John Halit Brown (born 1948) is a senior fellow at
USC Center on Public Diplomacy
The University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy is an academic research, teaching and training center created by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Scienc ...
where he regularly publishes the ''Public Diplomacy Press Review''.
The son of Dr. John Lackey Brown (1914–2002), a poet and cultural attaché who served in Belgium, Mexico and Paris, Brown is currently a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
, where he has taught courses about
public diplomacy
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.
A consultant for the Library of Congress's "Open World" exchange program with the Russian Federation, he has written for the ''
Washington Post
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'', ''
The Nation
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'', ''TomPaine.com'', ''
Moscow Times
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'', and ''American Diplomacy'' and occasionally lectured at the
ELE public forum in Moscow.
Brown, who received a Ph.D. in Russian History from Princeton University in 1977, was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1981 until March 10, 2003, when he resigned over the war in Iraq.
Interview with John H. Brown, Ret. State Department, Foreign Service Officer
Echo Chamber Project, July 15, 2004. Retrieved on July 25, 2007. He served in London, Prague, Kraków, Kiev, Belgrade, and Moscow. He is co-author (with S. Grant) of ''The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: A Guide to Archival and Manuscript Materials in the United States''. His other published writings include research on Russian history as well as articles in the Polish and Serbian press.
Notes
External links
''Public Diplomacy Press Review''
USC Center on Public Diplomacy Wiki Profile
by John Brown, Common Dreams, November 23, 2005
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1948 births
Living people
Cultural attachés