Dr. Pete Brown

Pete Brown, Ph.D.

A/C 306
Phone: (920)-424-7070
Email: brownp@uwosh.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1993
B.A. & M.A., Idaho State University

Interests and expertise:
Dr. Pete Brown is a cultural anthropologist.  His interests include globalization, inequality, identity, history, activism, and social movements.  Most of his research has been conducted in southern Mexico, in the state of Chiapas, though he has traveled (and in some cases taken students) to Peru, Guatemala, Belize, and Cameroon (West Africa).  

For an introduction to his research see Dr. Pete Brown's web page at the following link:
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/brownp/research.htm.

Dr. Brown’s current research focuses on changes to the municipio (equivalent to a US county) of Pantelho where the forces of globalization and the consequences of the Zapatista Rebellion have wrought dramatic changes to the lives of the people.   In a recent work Brown wrote:
“Emigration, robberies, assaults, drugs, prostitution, rape, and murder—Pantelho has it all now.  These are the things people talk about, worry about, these days.  Vices that did not exist before ravage the young and divide the community.  Young men in the United States, marijuana in the schools, prostitutes in the park; these things were unheard of before.  ‘Petul,’ I was told on a recent visit, ‘things are just not like they used to be.’…  What happened?  The answer is relatively simple, yet embedded in a chain of changes and their consequences...