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Kate Brown is an Associate Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of A Biography of No Place, which won the American Historical Association’s International European History Prize for the Best Book. Brown’s most recent book is Plutopia, a history of the world’s first two American and Soviet “plutonium citiesâ€, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. These were the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium for use in cold war atomic bombs. Brown is currently working on a book called Being There, which explores the history of blighted communities which have been “silenced or destroyedâ€. Brown has received many research grants and written many articles.
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