Please join us for the 2025 Elliott School Research Celebration. The event will feature a keynote address from the 2025 Michael E. Brown Research Prize Winner, Professor Nathan Brown. This annual award is the foremost research prize at the Elliott School. It honors a faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution to the scholarly and policy relevant understandings of important international issues. This year Elliott is honored to have Professor Nathan Brown as prize winner and keynote speaker at this year's research celebration. Dr. Brown will reflect on the what he hopes scholarship can contribute to understanding of public issues in polarizing times. The event will consist of:

1:00 PM - Opening Remarks

• Alyssa Ayres, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs

1:05 PM - Keynote Address

• Nathan Brown, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

1:35PM - Q&A

About the Speaker

Nathan Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies at the Elliott School. Dr. Brown received his B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics and Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics as well as more general courses on comparative politics and international relations.

He received the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Award for Scholarship from George Washington University in 2015 and the Harry Harding teaching award from the Elliott School of International Affairs in 2014. His dissertation received the Malcolm Kerr award from the Middle East Studies Association in 1987.

In 2013-2015, Dr. Brown was president of the Middle East Studies Association, the academic association for scholars studying the region. In 2013, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow; four years earlier, he was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For the 2009–2010 academic year, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  His previous research was funded by the United States Institute of Peace and two Fulbright fellowships. For the 2023-24 academic year, he is a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advance Study in Germany.

In addition to his academic work, Brown serves on the board of trustees at the American University in Cairo. He is also nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  He has previously served as an advisor for the committee drafting the Palestinian constitution, USAID, the United Nations Development Program, and several NGOs.