Kathleen M Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen M Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4807-0633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Penn & Slavery Project
University of Pennsylvania undergraduate students researching their institution’s complicity in slavery were not sure what they would discover when they began their work in 2017. They learned that the medical school had a long history dating to the mid-eighteenth century of harvesting the bodies of poor Black and White Philadelphia residents from the almshouse and local burial grounds. In addition, the university’s nineteenth-century medical rese…
Encumbering Liberty in the Shadow of Slavery
This comment on revisionist essays questions existing historical narratives and chronologies that feature free and slave states—Drawing on recent literature on abolition as well as on the findings of the Penn and Slavery Project, the comment raises issues of scale, comparison and connection, legal foundations and legacy, and political possibility. In addition, the comment considers the strength of state-level authority in the face of persistent l…
Liberty's Chain
Reviewed by: Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York by David N. Gellman Kathleen M. Brown Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York. By David N. Gellman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022. 541 pages. Cloth, ebook. David N. Gellman’s Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York is a clear-eyed account of how, during the nineteenth ce…
Are the Fitzpatrick Skin Phototypes Valid for Cancer Risk Assessment in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of Women
The Fitzpatrick Skin Phototypes (FSP) were developed to classify skin color and response to ultraviolet radiation. FSP are used clinically to assess risk for sunburn and skin cancer. Our aim was to determine the criterion-related validity of self-reported FSP when compared with skin color and sunburn history, controlling for age, race/ethnicity, and seasonality/geography. We performed a secondary analysis of data (N=466) from an observational stu…
Julie L. Holcomb. Moral Commerce
In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb follows the plumb line of transatlantic Quaker activism from anticommerce abstention politics to the search for redemption from slavery in the market for free-labor products. The result is a fascinating account that brings new sources and perspectives to bear on Quaker abolitionist activism. Organizers of British and American boycotts of slave-produced goods took different paths with dramatically different cons…
Gender Frontiers and Early Encounters
Gender frontiers are but one starting point for comparing cultural contact zones and analyzing imperialism and racial formation in the early modern Atlantic. Recent scholarship on Native American and African encounters with Europeans suggests a need for a more complex analytical framework. Africans and Native Americans participated actively in creating this cultural frontier—by persisting in, adjusting, or transforming precontact practices or by …
Riotous Flesh
Reviewed by: Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America by April R. Haynes Kathleen M. Brown April R. Haynes. Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. vii + 242 pp. Ill. $27.50 (978-0-226-28462-0). April Haynes tracks the changes in nineteenth-century discourses on normative female sexuality and sexual health to the…
Illicit Love
Ann McGrath's ambitious comparative study of interracial marriage in the early national United States and Australia joins a burgeoning and theoretically sophisticated body of scholarship focused on the relations between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples. Representing fifteen years of archival research in two countries, Illicit Love probes the uses of marriage prohibitions and the impact of interracial marriage for national identity and sov…
The Historical Body, Our Humanity, and the Cost of Modernity
Trusting’ schools to meet the academic needs of African‐American students? Suburban mothers’ perspectives
According to Tschannen‐Moran, ‘Principals and teachers need to build trusting relationships with students and parents in order to accomplish their essential goal of fostering student achievement and equipping students for citizenship.’ In the context of organizational trust, this study explored such relationships with six, middle‐class African‐American mothers. The mothers openly and honestly shared their thoughts regarding the suburban public ed…
Student Achievement in High Performing, Suburban Middle Schools and Low Performing, Urban Middle Schools
Utilizing a qualitative, multisite case study design and the theoretical framework of Hoy and Hannum (1997), the design and execution of this research investigates plausible explanations for the difference in student achievement between high performing (HPS) suburban middle schools and low performing (LPS) urban middle schools. Aside from the great disparity in SES, test scores, and funding, findings show stark contrasts between the 2 types of sc…
Leadership for Social Justice and Equity
Although many agree that theory, research, and practice should be intertwined to support the type of schooling (and society) that values rather than marginalizes, few scholars offer ground-breaking, pragmatic approaches to developing truly transformative leaders. From a critical theorist perspective, this article offers a practical, process-oriented model that is responsive to the challenges of preparing educational leaders committed to social ju…
Clio in Search of Eros
T HE William and Mary Quarterly used to boast a Trivia section devoted to humorous archival anecdotes sent in by its readers. Tidbits about a wide range of human foibles were printed under headings that connected them to modern concerns. Sexual tales constituted a small but noteworthy portion of Trivia, joining anecdotes about excessive alcohol consumption, political corruption, and curse of lawyers. NEVER LET A WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE included archiv…
Qualitative Analysis on Stage
Discussions regarding standards for assessing qualitative research have not sufficiently addressed questions concerning the privatization of this type of analysis. In response to this dilemma, the authors of this article address some of the strategies that they have employed in working with doctoral students and offer suggestions for assessing and publicly disclosing the methodological rigor and analytical defensibility of qualitative research. S…
Racial Gap in Teachers’ Perceptions of the Achievement Gap
Why does the achievement gap exist, and what should we do about it? Ogbu and Simons suggested that urban minority parents “hold teachers and schools, rather than their children, responsible for poor academic performance.” Other adults focus on the children and families, commenting on such things as poverty and lack of parental concern. And then there are the students who talk about being underestimated, dismissed, or just bored. The purpose of th…
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Antiauthoritarianism and Freedom in Early America
Journal Article Antiauthoritarianism and Freedom in Early America Get access Kathleen M. Brown Kathleen M. Brown assistant professor of history University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 77–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568432 Published: 01 June 1998
“Changed … into the Fashion of Man” The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement
This chapter discusses the gender identity of Thomas Hall and how it stirred controversy among the residents of Warraskoyack, Virginia, a small English settlement. It explains that Hall's case presents a nonetheless richly detailed glimpse of an early modern community's response to gender transgression, exposing to view a multiplicity of popular beliefs about sexual difference and the variety of uses to which they could be put by groups of people…
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Journal Article Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. By Kathleen M. Brown. (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 496 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2307-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4623-6.) Get access Joan R. Gundersen Joan R. Gundersen Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina Search for other works by thi…
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage
Brave New Worlds
CHOLARS working within the dominant theoretical framework for S American women's history have for many years attributed the most dramatic changes in women's historical experience to the emergence of capitalism and liberal democracy between I 820 and i 88o. The colonial period conveniently presented the before picture for studies that went on to analyze the rise of feminist movements, the impact of wage labor, and the reasons for declining numbers…
Qualitative Analysis on Stage
Discussions regarding standards for assessing qualitative research have not sufficiently addressed questions concerning the privatization of this type of analysis. In response to this dilemma, the authors of this article address some of the strategies that they have employed in working with doctoral students and offer suggestions for assessing and publicly disclosing the methodological rigor and analytical defensibility of qualitative research. S…
Leadership for Social Justice and Equity
Although many agree that theory, research, and practice should be intertwined to support the type of schooling (and society) that values rather than marginalizes, few scholars offer ground-breaking, pragmatic approaches to developing truly transformative leaders. From a critical theorist perspective, this article offers a practical, process-oriented model that is responsive to the challenges of preparing educational leaders committed to social ju…
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Journal Article Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. By Kathleen M. Brown. (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 496 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2307-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4623-6.) Get access Joan R. Gundersen Joan R. Gundersen Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina Search for other works by thi…
Student Achievement in High Performing, Suburban Middle Schools and Low Performing, Urban Middle Schools
Utilizing a qualitative, multisite case study design and the theoretical framework of Hoy and Hannum (1997), the design and execution of this research investigates plausible explanations for the difference in student achievement between high performing (HPS) suburban middle schools and low performing (LPS) urban middle schools. Aside from the great disparity in SES, test scores, and funding, findings show stark contrasts between the 2 types of sc…
Racial Gap in Teachers’ Perceptions of the Achievement Gap
Why does the achievement gap exist, and what should we do about it? Ogbu and Simons suggested that urban minority parents “hold teachers and schools, rather than their children, responsible for poor academic performance.” Other adults focus on the children and families, commenting on such things as poverty and lack of parental concern. And then there are the students who talk about being underestimated, dismissed, or just bored. The purpose of th…
Trusting’ schools to meet the academic needs of African‐American students? Suburban mothers’ perspectives
According to Tschannen‐Moran, ‘Principals and teachers need to build trusting relationships with students and parents in order to accomplish their essential goal of fostering student achievement and equipping students for citizenship.’ In the context of organizational trust, this study explored such relationships with six, middle‐class African‐American mothers. The mothers openly and honestly shared their thoughts regarding the suburban public ed…
Brave New Worlds
CHOLARS working within the dominant theoretical framework for S American women's history have for many years attributed the most dramatic changes in women's historical experience to the emergence of capitalism and liberal democracy between I 820 and i 88o. The colonial period conveniently presented the before picture for studies that went on to analyze the rise of feminist movements, the impact of wage labor, and the reasons for declining numbers…
Gender Frontiers and Early Encounters
Gender frontiers are but one starting point for comparing cultural contact zones and analyzing imperialism and racial formation in the early modern Atlantic. Recent scholarship on Native American and African encounters with Europeans suggests a need for a more complex analytical framework. Africans and Native Americans participated actively in creating this cultural frontier—by persisting in, adjusting, or transforming precontact practices or by …
The Historical Body, Our Humanity, and the Cost of Modernity
Brave New Worlds
CHOLARS working within the dominant theoretical framework for S American women's history have for many years attributed the most dramatic changes in women's historical experience to the emergence of capitalism and liberal democracy between I 820 and i 88o. The colonial period conveniently presented the before picture for studies that went on to analyze the rise of feminist movements, the impact of wage labor, and the reasons for declining numbers…
On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage
“Changed … into the Fashion of Man” The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement
This chapter discusses the gender identity of Thomas Hall and how it stirred controversy among the residents of Warraskoyack, Virginia, a small English settlement. It explains that Hall's case presents a nonetheless richly detailed glimpse of an early modern community's response to gender transgression, exposing to view a multiplicity of popular beliefs about sexual difference and the variety of uses to which they could be put by groups of people…
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Journal Article Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. By Kathleen M. Brown. (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 496 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2307-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4623-6.) Get access Joan R. Gundersen Joan R. Gundersen Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina Search for other works by thi…
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Antiauthoritarianism and Freedom in Early America
Journal Article Antiauthoritarianism and Freedom in Early America Get access Kathleen M. Brown Kathleen M. Brown assistant professor of history University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 77–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568432 Published: 01 June 1998
Qualitative Analysis on Stage
Discussions regarding standards for assessing qualitative research have not sufficiently addressed questions concerning the privatization of this type of analysis. In response to this dilemma, the authors of this article address some of the strategies that they have employed in working with doctoral students and offer suggestions for assessing and publicly disclosing the methodological rigor and analytical defensibility of qualitative research. S…
Racial Gap in Teachers’ Perceptions of the Achievement Gap
Why does the achievement gap exist, and what should we do about it? Ogbu and Simons suggested that urban minority parents “hold teachers and schools, rather than their children, responsible for poor academic performance.” Other adults focus on the children and families, commenting on such things as poverty and lack of parental concern. And then there are the students who talk about being underestimated, dismissed, or just bored. The purpose of th…
Clio in Search of Eros
T HE William and Mary Quarterly used to boast a Trivia section devoted to humorous archival anecdotes sent in by its readers. Tidbits about a wide range of human foibles were printed under headings that connected them to modern concerns. Sexual tales constituted a small but noteworthy portion of Trivia, joining anecdotes about excessive alcohol consumption, political corruption, and curse of lawyers. NEVER LET A WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE included archiv…
Student Achievement in High Performing, Suburban Middle Schools and Low Performing, Urban Middle Schools
Utilizing a qualitative, multisite case study design and the theoretical framework of Hoy and Hannum (1997), the design and execution of this research investigates plausible explanations for the difference in student achievement between high performing (HPS) suburban middle schools and low performing (LPS) urban middle schools. Aside from the great disparity in SES, test scores, and funding, findings show stark contrasts between the 2 types of sc…
Leadership for Social Justice and Equity
Although many agree that theory, research, and practice should be intertwined to support the type of schooling (and society) that values rather than marginalizes, few scholars offer ground-breaking, pragmatic approaches to developing truly transformative leaders. From a critical theorist perspective, this article offers a practical, process-oriented model that is responsive to the challenges of preparing educational leaders committed to social ju…
Trusting’ schools to meet the academic needs of African‐American students? Suburban mothers’ perspectives
According to Tschannen‐Moran, ‘Principals and teachers need to build trusting relationships with students and parents in order to accomplish their essential goal of fostering student achievement and equipping students for citizenship.’ In the context of organizational trust, this study explored such relationships with six, middle‐class African‐American mothers. The mothers openly and honestly shared their thoughts regarding the suburban public ed…
The Historical Body, Our Humanity, and the Cost of Modernity
Riotous Flesh
Reviewed by: Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America by April R. Haynes Kathleen M. Brown April R. Haynes. Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. vii + 242 pp. Ill. $27.50 (978-0-226-28462-0). April Haynes tracks the changes in nineteenth-century discourses on normative female sexuality and sexual health to the…
Illicit Love
Ann McGrath's ambitious comparative study of interracial marriage in the early national United States and Australia joins a burgeoning and theoretically sophisticated body of scholarship focused on the relations between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples. Representing fifteen years of archival research in two countries, Illicit Love probes the uses of marriage prohibitions and the impact of interracial marriage for national identity and sov…
Julie L. Holcomb. Moral Commerce
In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb follows the plumb line of transatlantic Quaker activism from anticommerce abstention politics to the search for redemption from slavery in the market for free-labor products. The result is a fascinating account that brings new sources and perspectives to bear on Quaker abolitionist activism. Organizers of British and American boycotts of slave-produced goods took different paths with dramatically different cons…
Gender Frontiers and Early Encounters
Gender frontiers are but one starting point for comparing cultural contact zones and analyzing imperialism and racial formation in the early modern Atlantic. Recent scholarship on Native American and African encounters with Europeans suggests a need for a more complex analytical framework. Africans and Native Americans participated actively in creating this cultural frontier—by persisting in, adjusting, or transforming precontact practices or by …
Are the Fitzpatrick Skin Phototypes Valid for Cancer Risk Assessment in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of Women
The Fitzpatrick Skin Phototypes (FSP) were developed to classify skin color and response to ultraviolet radiation. FSP are used clinically to assess risk for sunburn and skin cancer. Our aim was to determine the criterion-related validity of self-reported FSP when compared with skin color and sunburn history, controlling for age, race/ethnicity, and seasonality/geography. We performed a secondary analysis of data (N=466) from an observational stu…
Liberty's Chain
Reviewed by: Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York by David N. Gellman Kathleen M. Brown Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York. By David N. Gellman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022. 541 pages. Cloth, ebook. David N. Gellman’s Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York is a clear-eyed account of how, during the nineteenth ce…
Encumbering Liberty in the Shadow of Slavery
This comment on revisionist essays questions existing historical narratives and chronologies that feature free and slave states—Drawing on recent literature on abolition as well as on the findings of the Penn and Slavery Project, the comment raises issues of scale, comparison and connection, legal foundations and legacy, and political possibility. In addition, the comment considers the strength of state-level authority in the face of persistent l…
The Penn & Slavery Project
University of Pennsylvania undergraduate students researching their institution’s complicity in slavery were not sure what they would discover when they began their work in 2017. They learned that the medical school had a long history dating to the mid-eighteenth century of harvesting the bodies of poor Black and White Philadelphia residents from the almshouse and local burial grounds. In addition, the university’s nineteenth-century medical rese…
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