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Brown teaches environmental history, the history of food production, the history of plants and people, wild and cultivated, and a seminar on narrating the Anthropocene. Her graduate seminars focus on exploring creative non-fiction narrative modes.
Manual for Survival was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, -for-survival-by-kate-brown-2019-nonfiction-finalist/. And is also a finalist for the Ryszard Kapuscinski International Award for Literary Reporting, ,4.html?locale=en_GB.
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1986: Darlene Clark Hine, The Black Women in the Middle West Project: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, Illinois and Indiana: Historical Essays, Oral Histories, Biographical Profiles, and Document Collections
In 1945, Woods Brown took additional classes at OSU in Geography and Eastern History. Ultimately, she left the South for Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend Harvard University where she sought a Ph.D. in History.
In 1966, over 18 years after she entered the program, Letitia completed her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. She is believed to be the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in History from Harvard. She entered Harvard as a 30-year-old single woman in 1945 and graduated as a 51-year-old grandmother when she completed her doctorate.
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