Lyn Mikel Brown
Professor of Education
4422 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8844
Education
Ed.D. 1989 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA--Human Development and Psychology
Areas of Expertise
- Girls social and psychological development
- Girlfighting and competition among girls
- Activism and youth organizing
- Media and marketing to girls
Courses Currently Teaching
| Course | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ED334 A | Girls, New Civics, and Youth-Fueled Activism |
Other Courses Taught
| Course | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ED 335 | Girlhood Activism and Popular Culture |
| ED 332 | Women Girls and the Cultures of Education |
| ED 498 | Girls and Social Change |
Professional Information
Lyn’s scholarship focuses on understanding the conditions that enable girls’ healthy resistance and dissent in the face of oppression. She is the author of seven curriculums and educational toolkits and six books, including Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (with Carol Gilligan; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year); Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls’ Anger; Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls; Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketer’s Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; winner of a Books For A Better Life Award), and her most recent, Powered By Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists.
See Dr. Brown's WordPress site for more information about her research, teaching and activism
Dr. Brown earned her Ed.D. at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. She has been Henkels Visiting Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, a recipient of the Maine Women's Fund Sarah Orne Jewett Award, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Scholar-in-Residence, and winner of a National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her study of girlfighting garnered a Henry A. Murray Research Center Radcliffe Postdoctoral Research Award and other research grants. She was a member of The American Psychological Association's Presidential Task Force on Adolescent Girls, and consultant to the Ms. Foundation for Women's National Girls' Initiative. She has written commentaries and opinion pieces for a number of publications, including Bitch Magazine, Education Week, Rethinking Schools, CNN Opinion, The Boston Globe, TIME Motto, and Ms. Magazine. Dr. Brown lives in Waterville, Maine with her partner Dr. Mark Tappan, daughter, Maya, and their two dogs and three cats.Current Research
Publications
Brown, L.M., Edell, D., Jones, M., Luckhurst, G., & Percentie, J. 2016. “I Love Beyoncé, But I Struggle With Beyoncé”: Girl Activists Talk Music and Feminism. In. J. Warwick and A. Adrian, eds., Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity. New York: Routledge.
Edell, D. & Brown, L.M. 2016. Bridges, Ladders, Sparks & Glue: Celebrating and Problematizing “Girl-Driven” Intergenerational Feminist Activism. Special 15th Anniversary Issue, Feminist Media Studies: ‘An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies,’ 16(4): 693-709.
Castro Baker, A., Brown, L.M., Ragonese, M. 2015. Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions About Sexualization with Adolescent Girls. Social Work. http://sw.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/29/sw.swv046.full.pdf+html
Edell, D., Brown, L.M., & Tolman, D. 2013. Embodying Sexualization: When Theory Meets Practice in Intergenerational Feminist Activism. Feminist Theory, 14: 275-284.
See Dr. Brown's WordPress site for more information about her books, research, and a current CV, as well as detailed information about her activism
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