Professor Contact Information michaelb@uw.edu 303e Smith Hall Office Hours by appointment Fields of Interest Cities Critical Theory Feminism and Feminist Theory Health History Political Geography Queer Studies Research Methods Urban Politics Urban Studies 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] Courses Taught Winter 2025GEOG 511 A: Contemporary Research Design in Geography Autumn 2024GEOG 315 A: Explanation and Understanding in Geography Spring 2024GEOG 525 A: Advanced Qualitative Methods in Geography GEOG 598 A: Geography Colloquium Winter 2024GEOG 598 A: Geography Colloquium Autumn 2023GEOG 315 A: Explanation and Understanding in Geography GEOG 598 A: Geography Colloquium Spring 2023GEOG 377 A: Urban Political Geography GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography Winter 2023GEOG 276 A: Introduction to Political Geography GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography Autumn 2022GEOG 315 A: Explanation and Understanding in Geography GEOG 497 A: Tutorial in Geography Spring 2022GEOG 455 A: Genealogical Geographies Winter 2022GEOG 276 A: Introduction to Political Geography GEOG 511 A: Contemporary Research Design in Geography Autumn 2021GEOG 315 A: Explanation and Understanding in Geography Winter 2021GEOG 377 A: Urban Political Geography GEOG 511 A: Contemporary Research Design in Geography Affiliations Home Department Geography Related Departments Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies 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)
