Rate My Professor Aleia Brown

Prior to East Carolina University, Brown served as Vice President of Programs and Chief Curator at the National Women’s History Museum, Assistant Director of the African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative with affiliate faculty status in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Program Manager and Public Fellow at the Humanities Action Lab at Rutgers University-Newark—where she launched the Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice traveling exhibition—and Curator of African and African American History at the Michigan State University Museum, co-curating Ubuntutu: Life Legacies of Love and Action and co-authoring its catalog in 2016. She edited special issues on Black Digital Humanities in Reviews in Digital Humanities (volumes 3.4 and 3.5). Notable articles include “Black Scholars Matter: #BlkTwitterstorians Building a Digital Community” (The Black Scholar, 2017) and “On Race and Museums: Starting Conversations, Embracing Action” (Museums and Social Issues, 2015). Brown has received the African American Intellectual History Society’s CLR James Research Fellowship, Mellon-ACLS Public Fellowship, and a 2023–2024 Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her curatorial contributions include a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition on quilts by Black women artists.