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Kate Brown

American historian, professor (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1965 · age 61

Kate Brown is a Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (2019), Dispatches from Dystopia (2015), Plutopia (2013), and A Biography of No Place (2004).

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2019National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAward2017Berlin PrizeAward2016Carnegie FellowAward2014Albert J. Beveridge AwardAwardEllis W. Hawley PrizeAward2004George Louis Beer PrizeAward1965Born

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The Hanford site represents two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960.

Awards

National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction2019

Berlin Prize2017

Carnegie Fellow2016

Albert J. Beveridge Award2014

Ellis W. Hawley Prize2014

George Louis Beer Prize2004

Guggenheim Fellowship

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She was a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) from 2000 to 2018. She is the founding consulting editor of History Unclassified in the American Historical Review.

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David W. BlightBoth received Ellis W. Hawley Prize

Charles S. MaierBoth received George Louis Beer Prize