Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 1935) is a historian and professor of history.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland to a Protestant family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford where he pursued his graduate studies under the direction of Arnaldo Momigliano.
He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the ...
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Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 1935) is a historian and professor of history.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland to a Protestant family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford where he pursued his graduate studies under the direction of Arnaldo Momigliano.
He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History. Brown has received honorary degrees from several academic institutions, among which the University of Chicago, Trinity College (Dublin), Wesleyan University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and Kings College London. In 1982, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for scholars in the humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In 2008, he was the co-winner, with Indian historian Romila Thapar, of the prestigious Kluge Prize for...
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