He is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut, where he has taught since 1971.
[1][2][3] Born in New York City to parents Alvyn Adolph and Dorothy Kruskal Brown, Brown attended the Devereux Manor High School in Devon, Pennsylvania, and Fieldston School in New York.
[3][1] Brown began his academic career as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Toulouse in France in 1965–1966.
Brown chaired the history department from 1974 to 1980 and directed the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute from 2001 to 2009.
Like her husband, Irene Brown is a Harvard-educated historian who taught at the University of Connecticut between 1978 and 2003, when she retired.