Judith Margaret Brown (born 9 July 1944)[3] is a British historian, academic and Anglican priest, who specialises in the study of modern South Asia.
Judith M. Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 July 1944 |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, academic, Anglican priest[1] |
| Honours | Raleigh Lecture on History (2012)[2] |
Early life and education
editBrown was born in India but educated in Britain.
Brown felt the call to ordination when she was young, before the ordination of women was allowed in the Anglican Communion.[4] She was trained at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She completed her Ph.D. at Girton College, Cambridge.
Career
editFrom 1990 to 2011, she was the Beit Professor of Commonwealth History and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.[5] Earlier she taught at the University of Manchester. She retired from teaching in 2011.[1]
She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2009 and as a priest in 2010.[6] From 2009 to 2010, she served her curacy at St Frideswide's Church, Osney, in the Diocese of Oxford.[6] Since 2014, she has been an associate priest of St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford.[4] She served as interim chaplain to Brasenose College, Oxford in 2017; the first woman to serve as chaplain of the college.[6][7]
Selected bibliography
edit- Brown, Judith M. (2008), Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928-1934, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 436, ISBN 978-0-521-06695-2; 1st edition 1977[8]
- Brown, Judith M. (2006), Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora (New Approaches to Asian History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 216, ISBN 0-521-60630-6
- Brown, Judith M. (2005), Nehru: A Political Life, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Pp. 416, ISBN 0-300-11407-9
- Brown, Judith M. (1994), Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, Second Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 480., ISBN 0-19-873113-2
- Brown, Judith M.; Louis, Wm. Roger, eds. (2001), Oxford History of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 800, ISBN 0-19-924679-3
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Professor Judith Brown". University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ "Raleigh Lectures on History". The British Academy. text audio
- ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. p. 35.
- ^ a b "People: Associate Priest; The Revd Professor Judith M. Brown". St Mary Magdalen Church Oxford. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Judith Brown". Balliol College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ a b c "Judith Margaret Brown". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Brasenose Appoints our first female Chaplain". Brasenose College. University of Oxford. 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ Baker, Christopher (1977). "Review of Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: the Mahatma in Indian politics 1928–34 by Judith M. Brown". Modern Asian Studies. 11 (3): 469–473. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00014232. ISSN 0026-749X. S2CID 145133071.
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