Dr. Donathan L. Brown (M.A., Syracuse University, Ph.D., Texas A&M University) conducts research at the intersection of race, rhetoric and public policy, particularly pertaining to African Americans and Latinos. His research on pro-slavery argumentation, for instance, was a part of an international and interdisciplinary project on racism and slavery funded by the Austrian Research Council, presented at the University of Innsbruck and published by Peter Lang. Most recently, his research on the English-only movement and Latino politics in America was presented at the University of Maribor (Slovenia) in conjunction with the World Debate Institute and published in the book, Domestic Policy Discourse in the US and the UK in the New World Order. Other research has appeared in the Journal of Race and Policy, Communication Law Review, the Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race, The Closed Border: An Encyclopedia of Anti-Immigration Sentiment in the United States, and the Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity. On the public policy side, Dr. Brown has performed various functions in both the House of Representatives and most recently in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington D.C.

 Thus far, Dr. Brown has and/or will teach the following courses:

• Communication, Race and Public Policy (Fall 2010)
• Intercultural Communication: Cultures in Conflict (Spring 2011 & 2012)
• Introduction to Culture and Communication (Fall 2011 & Spring 2012)
• Rhetoric and Social Order (Fall 2011)
• Political Communication: Campaigns and Elections (Spring 2012) 

 Interested in this line of research or would like to learn more about these courses? Feel free to email or drop by.