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Professor Brown’s research concerns key areas including cultural history capitalism and history theory photography, with a specialization in queer trans* history theory in Canada. She employs methodologies such as oral history and reading visual evidence, aiming to write for broader public audiences. Her work has received fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, Library of Congress Kluge Center, American Council of Learned Societies, Smithsonian Institution, American Philosophical Society, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Brown is the author of 'Corporate Eye: Photography Rationalization in American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929' and 'Sexual Capital: Queer History Modeling, 1909-1983' (forthcoming). She co-edited 'Cultures of Commerce: Representation of American Business Culture, 1877-1960' and 'Feeling Photography'. Professor Brown's research has been published in various academic journals including GLQ, Gender History, Feminist Studies, and Radical History Review. She currently leads funded projects such as 'The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory' (SSHRC, PI, 2014-2019). Brown co-founded the Toronto Photography Seminar in 2004 and invites graduate students to explore cultural history and queer trans* history in Canada through collaborative research.
Department of Sociology