Judith C. Brown


Judith C. Brown is a historian and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco. A specialist of the Italian Renaissance, she is considered a pioneer in the study of the history of sexuality whose work explored the earliest recorded examples of lesbian relationships in European history.

Academic career

Brown studied for a B.A. and M.A. at the University of California, Berkeley and completed a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.
She was Dean of the School of Humanities at Rice University, and a Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Wesleyan University. She is also currently Emeritus Professor of History at Wesleyan University.

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