Professor
Biography
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1994
M.A., University of British Columbia, 1990
B.A., Clark University, 1988
Research
Selected Research
- Knopp, L.; Brown, M.; McKeithen, W. 2018 Urban politics as the unfolding of social relations in place: The case of sexually transmitted disease investigation in Mid-Twentieth Century Gay Seattle, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research doi:10.1111.1468-2427.12609
- Brown, Michael, and Larry Knopp. "The Birth of the (gay) Clinic." Health & Place 28 (2014): 99-108.
- Brown, Michael. "Gender and Sexuality II." Progress in Human Geography 38, no. 3, 457-65.
- Legg, Stephen, and Michael Brown. "Moral Regulation: Historical Geography and Scale." Journal of Historical Geography, 2013, Journal of Historical Geography, 2013.
- Brown, Michael. "Gender and Sexuality I." Progress in Human Geography 36, no. 4, 541-50.
- Brown, Michael P., and Morrill, Richard L. Seattle Geographies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
- Morrill, Richard, Larry Knopp, and Michael Brown. "Anomalies in red and blue: Exceptionalism in American electoral geography." Political Geography26, no. 5 (2007): 525-553.
- Knopp, Larry, and Michael Brown. "Queer diffusions." Environment and Planning D 21, no. 4 (2003): 409-424.
- Brown, Michael. "Ironies of distance: an ongoing critique of the geographies of AIDS." Environment and Planning D 13 (1995): 159-159.
Research Advised
- Wilson, M. (2023) An elusive consensus: mental health and psychosocial support in disasters and emergencies since 1980. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington]
- McKeithen, W., & Brown, M. P. (2020). Life in prison : biopolitics, Ill-being, and the neoliberal penitentiary. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Naslund, S., & Brown, M. (2019). Bodies inside bodies : examining the use of helminthic therapy and its challenge to popular and biomedical discourses. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Childs, A. G., & Brown, M. P. (2017). Bound but determined : reproduction and subversion in Folsom’s, IML’s, and Seattle’s gay leather communities. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Bettani, S., & Brown, M. (2016). Religion and religious places : rethinking hybridity. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Crane, A., & Brown, M. (2014). Uncaring systems and the production of trans* subjectivites : exploring digital spaces of trans* care. [University of Washington Libraries].
- McKeithen, W. L., & Brown, M. P. (2014). Governing pet love : ’crazy cat ladies, ’ cultural discourse, and the spatial logics of inter-species intimacies. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Gillespie, K. (Kathryn A. ), & Brown, M. P. (2014). Reproducing dairy : embodied animals and the institution of animal agriculture. [University of Washington Libraries].
- Bettani, S., & Brown, M. M. (2012). “Queering” straightness : heterosexual experiences of homonormative spaces in Seattle. University of Washington.
- Masilela, A. Leisures of Responsibility: Spatializing Care and Wellness in Martial Arts Practice. Dissertation. University of Washington; 2025.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Affiliations
Home Department