Timothy Brown

Advisor: Manisha Sinha

Research Interests

Nineteenth-Century United States, Slavery & Abolition, Antebellum Politics, U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History.

Education

M.A., History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021
Master’s Thesis: “The Spark That Lit the Match: The Use of Petitions and the Emergence of Antislavery Politicians in the Movement to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia, 1816-1829.”

B.A., History, State University of New York, College at Buffalo, 2018

Biography

Timothy Brown is a doctoral student studying the early antislavery movement in Washington, D.C. He also graduated with minors in Public History and Museum Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of New York, College at Buffalo, respectively. He has held internships at the Buffalo History Museum in Buffalo, New York and the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.