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.
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
Related Departments
Related News
Related News
- Geography Faculty Michael Brown and Larry Knopp Featured in The Seattle Times (July 2, 2024)
- Announcement: Winners of the GeoAI Prompt Contest (November 16, 2023)
- With New Course About Genealogical Geographies, Faculty and Students Find "Joy" in Collaboration (September 12, 2019)
- Geography alum helps unearth wealth of ORCA card data (August 23, 2016)
- Prof. Michael Brown and his art featured on Faculty Friday! (November 24, 2015)
- Professor Emeritus Dick Morrill Honored at Upcoming UW Awards of Excellence Ceremony (May 22, 2014)
- Graduate Students Participate in Dissertation Proposal Workshop (March 5, 2014)
- Simpson Center Funds New Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, The Postcolonial Animal (February 12, 2014)
- Michael Brown Interviewed by KPLU on Same-Sex Households (October 1, 2013)
- Seattle's Biopolitical Geographies (July 20, 2012)