Dmitri Brown

Assistant Professor

North America


I am a historian of the United States, specializing in Native American modernity. My current research develops a Tewa Pueblo history of the Manhattan Project and the atomic age. I am especially interested in the ways in which Indigenous philosophy, epistemology, and cosmology open new questions about science and history. I am a member of Santa Clara Pueblo, and much of my work is rooted in family and community relations.

Before coming to Berkeley, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Society of Fellows and assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Michigan.


Education

BA: University of Puget Sound, 2012
PhD: University of California, Davis, 2022


Research Interests

  • Native American history
  • 20th-century U.S.
  • American Southwest
  • Nuclear history
  • Indigenous methodologies
  • Pueblo studies
  • Ethnobotany
  • Madness
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Contact

2229 Dwinelle

dmjbrown@berkeley.edu