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 Dr. Sheryl J. Brown earned the B.A. from the University of California in 1970, after having spent two years at the American University in Paris. Her degree from U.C. was in English literature. Her next degree was from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in the Masters in Liberal Arts (MLA). She then received a Masters in Arts in Literature at University of Dallas, TX. She was awarded a scholarship/fellowship at the University of Dallas in the Institute of Philosophic Studies, where she pursued a double doctorate in Political Philosophy and Western Literature in the Wilmore Kendall Program. She received the doctorates in 1985. Her Dissertation, “Introduction to Montesquieu: A First Reading of Essay on Causes That Can Affect the Spirits and Characters,” with translation and commentary, was supervised by professors Melvin Bradford, Glen Thurow, and Thomas West.
From 2002 to 2006, Brown was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). From 1995 to 2002 she was director of Communications, the Virtual Diplomacy, Fellowship and Library programs at USIP (four separate departments, which she managed simultaneously).
She organized several international conferences and founded and edited USIP’s, Virtual Diplomacy Publication Series (VDS), no. 1-18, 2000-2005.
From 1991-2005, she was an instructor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in the continuing education program. She taught ancient Greek history, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon.
Brown also served as a consultant to the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), developing, writing and editing the 25th-Anniversary ARC Achievement Project: a retrospective of accomplishment in the Region. That included a textbook/guide targeting 5th-8th grade Appalachian youths for class-initiated community development projects.
She also was a member of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Board for the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) from 1984-1987.
She is the mother of two sons, Darcy and Austen and was a triathlete (Olympic) for four years from 2001-2005.
Dr. Brown’s publications include:
- “Arab Media: Tools of the Government, Tools for the People?” Virtual Diplomacy Series, U. S. Institute of Peace (Vol. 18) 2005.
- Creating a Common Communications Culture: Interoperability in Crisis Management, co-authored with Richard Solomon, USIP Virtual Diplomacy Series, 2004.
- “Virtual Diplomacy: Rethinking Foreign Policy Practice in the Information Age,” Information & Security, co-authored with Margarita Studemeister (Vol. 7, 2001).
- “The Diffusion of Diplomacy,” The Magazine on Information Impacts, co-authored with Margarita Studemeister (2001).
- Resolving Third World Conflicts: Challenges for a New Era, co-edited with Kimber Schraub (USIP Press, 1992).
- Making Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Negotiating Experience, co-authored with Samuel W. Lewis and Kenneth W. Stein (USIP Press, 1991).
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