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Robert Brown Jr

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Specialties
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Specialties

  • cultural ethnography
  • education and institutions
  • literacy and critical pedagogy
  • popular culture
  • rhetoric
  • theory and sociology of knowledge and taste
  • cultural studies of science and technology
  • culture and the environment
Publications
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Publications

  • Strategic Stories: how 3M is Re-writing its Planning Process: Gordon Shaw, Phillip Bromiley, Brown Jr, Robert, Harvard Business Review, 1998.
  • Subject to interpretation: the role of research in writing programs and the politics of administration: Christopher Anson, Heineman, Brown Jr, Robert, The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: : Inquiry in Action and Reflection, 1999.
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Activities

Professional

  • Director, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Graduate Studies none - none
  • Director, University of Minnesota Humanities Institute none - none
Awards
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Awards

  • College of Liberal Arts "Red" Motley Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, none - none
  • Morse Amoco/Alumni Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, none - none
Courses
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Courses

  • CL/CSDS 8910 - Pedagogy in Cultural Studies
  • CSCL 1001 - Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desires
  • CSCL 3910 - Rhetoric of Science/Rhetoric of Race
  • CSCL 3910 - The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
  • CSDS 8910 - Augusto Boal, Paulo Friere & Critical Pedagogy
  • CSDS 8910 - Enthography as Cultural Critique
  • CSCL 3331--Science and the Humanities
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