Christopher Brown Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Newcomb Hall 308
540-458-8387
cbrown2@wlu.edu

Education

Ohio State University: Ph.D. in anthropology
University of Connecticut: M.A. in international studies
Northwestern University: B.A. in political science

Research

Political anthropology, environmental anthropology, African political cultures, social-ecological systems, ethnographic methods, migration and subjectivity, global education. 

Selected Publications

Schareika, Nikolaus, Christopher Brown, Mark Moritz. 2021. “Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa”. Current Anthropology, volume 62, no. 1.

Brown, Christopher. 2019. The Cultural Logic of Strangerhood: Subjectivity, Migration and Belonging among Ghana’s Transnational Zongo Community. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University.