My grandmother’s art inspired me to pursue an Afrocentric PhD. in Theater and Performance

Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University '2028 | Creative Researcher and Educational Consultant | Fulbright Alum

Lauren Stockmon Brown is a PhD Candidate and Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University in the Theatre and Performance English and  Comparative Literature Department. Lauren received a BA from New York  University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a former  scholarship recipient of The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant  Program, Senegal ‘20. Here, she taught English as a second language  while continuing research on the 1960s' "Black Is Beautiful Movement"  and the emergence of Pan-Africanism for her podcast, "My Colorful Nana.” 

As a passionate storyteller, she is primarily interested in movement  building and taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring critical  global issues. She is trained in graduate-level courses highlighting the  politics of visual arts, innovative education practices, and language  teaching, taught by other scholars as part of an international roster of  researchers from across Columbia University and New York City.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies 20th and 21st Century African American Literature and Cultural History Africa Oral History Gender Sexuality Ethnicity and Race Studies Media Studies Political Theater Pedagogy Interdisciplinary Studies African American and African Diaspora  

Academic Profile: https://english.columbia.edu/content/lauren-stockmon-brown