Keith Brown

Keith Brown is Director of the Melikian Center, A US Department of Education National Resource Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies at Arizona State University. He is also Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, where he teaches on a range of topics including Post-Soviet Geopolitics, and Nationalism, Borders and Cities in Macedonia. An anthropologist, Brown's research interests include nation and empire, post-conflict transition, democratic activism and labor migration, with a primary focus on the 19th and 20th century Western Balkans. He has authored, edited or co-edited six books, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

He holds a bachelor's in classics from Oxford University and a master's and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Before joining ASU in 2017, he was on the faculty at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, where he served as director of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes from 2010-2014, and co-director of the Watson Institute's postdoctoral program from 2014-2017.
He has held positions as a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (1999-2000), a visiting fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (2004-5), and a core fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland (2021-22).