Sarah Brown
Director, Northwestern University Women's Center
- brown@northwestern.edu
- Women's Center, 2000 Sheridan Rd.
Sarah Brown is the Director of Northwestern University’s Women’s Centers on the Evanston and Chicago campuses. In this role, Dr. Brown works with Women’s Center staff and a broad range of campus partners to promote feminist education, community, and policy, and to create the conditions for imagining a more just and affirming future.
Sarah’s research interests include history of medicine, specifically in mental health fields, affect theory, late twentieth century U.S. history and literature, and feminist science studies. She has developed the courses Depression and Its Discontents and Imagining the American Mind. She most frequently offers the course Feminism and Social Change in GSS, a course that is part history and theory and part practical skills for political engagement.
Dr. Brown received her PhD from Brown in American Studies in 2019 and is a very proud graduate of Brooklyn College in the City University of New York. She writes for academic and creative nonfiction audiences.