

Her latest book Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future is up for the 2019 NBCC Awards for the nonfiction category.

She also authored A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, winner of American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for the Best Book in International European History, and Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten.

Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH), and the 2014 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, among others. Plutopia also won the 2014 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), the 2014 Ellis W. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association for the best book in American history in the last two years for book Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. Brown has written multiple books that have received many awards for excellence, including the 2015 John H. From December 2006 to January 2008, Brown was a Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar with the Kennan Institute. Kate Brown is a Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

North Korea International Documentation Project.Environmental Change and Security Program.Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.
