APADS' Virtual Brown Bag Series: Beyond the Doctorate

Dr. Anthony Brown (The University of Texas at Austin)

Wed. April 6, 2022 – 12 noon PST

"Being a Good Fit: Finding Your Ideal Academic Environment" - Description: This presentation will explore the topic of institutional fit. The following question will guide this brown bag session: How do you know your research and teaching background will be a good fit with a department and program area?

Wed. April 20, 2022 – 12 noon PST

"From Assistant to Associate Professor to Full Professor: Exploring the Pathways to Tenure and Promotion" - Description: This presentation will explore the topic of tenure and promotion. The following questions will guide this brown bag session: How do you review and assess a university's policy for tenure and promotion? What are the features of a solid tenure profile?

Wed. May 4, 2022 – 12 noon PST

"Getting Accepted: Exploring Three Critical Steps to Publication" - Description: This presentation will explore the topic of publishing in peer-reviewed journals. The following question will guide this brown bag session: What are the critical steps to publishing in a peer-review journal? Attention will be given to the three following steps:

1. Selecting a journal

2. Submitting to a journal

3. Addressing Reviewers' Comments

Anthony L. Brown is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. He also is an affiliated faculty with the John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and the department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Dr. Brown received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin Madison in Curriculum & Instruction in 2006.

His research agenda falls into two interconnected strands of research, related broadly to the education of African Americans. His first strand of research examines how educational stakeholders make sense of and respond to the educational needs of African American male students. The second strand examines how the historical experiences of African Americans are depicted in official school knowledge (e.g. standards and textbooks) and within popular discourse. Dr. Brown has published 30 journal articles, 9 book chapters, 1 edited book and 2 full-length books.

Professor Brown is the recipient of numerous awards for research. In 2008, The American Educational Research Association (AERA) awarded Dr. Brown the Division G Outstanding Dissertation Award. Dr. Brown was also awarded by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) the 2011 Division G Early Career Award. Then in 2016 his book Black Intellectual Thought in Education was awarded the AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book Award. He also was awarded 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Book Award for his co-authored book, Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of the U.S. Curriculum. Then in 2018 he was honored by the American Educational Research Association with the Division K Mid-Career Award. His most recent project explores how teachers conceptualize the teaching of American slavery. This project is funded by the Humanities Texas and the Spencer Foundation.