Christopher M. Brown, who holds a doctorate in international relations from Florida International University, is a faculty member at Georgia Southern University’s Department of Political Science and International Studies.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, he completed his undergraduate at the University of Florida and Temple University before pursuing his doctorate at FIU. After earning his Ph.D., he participated in a Faculty Exchange with the University of Havana, and he is a National Endowment for Humanities Scholar with the Jose Marti Institute at the University of Tampa. His primary research agenda addresses normative issues of democratization and democracy theory, particularly with regard to representation and policy implementation.
“The Securitization of Post-9/11 Reception Patterns of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Deconstructing the Venezuelan Exodus, was recently published in Routledge’s, Migration and Development journal. A book entitled, Responding to the Venezuelan Migrant Crisis: Insights for the Caribbean (written with Georgina Chami, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and Nalanda Roy, Georgia Southern University) is under contract with Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield Academic Publishing with an expected publication date in early 2024.
His most recent monograph, Failed Democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Palgrave-Macmillan) has just been published in August 2023. Democratization in Cuba (also with Palgrave-Macmillan) is forthcoming in mid-2024.
Christopher M. Brown, PhD 