Kelly Anne Brown

Kelly Anne Brown is Assistant Director at the UC-wide Humanities Research Institute. A “hybrid” academic working at UCHRI since 2012, Kelly serves as project director for the MLA-funded Humanists@Work Initiative, facilitates the institute’s large grant-making program, and manages other externally-funded grant projects. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Kelly worked in public policy and program administration for children and family programs at the city, county, and state levels of California government. Kelly lives and breathes systemwide humanities program development while also pursuing her scholarly interests in graduate student professionalization, public humanities, and collaborative research. Kelly holds a PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz where she wrote a dissertation on modernist publicness.