Phil Brown

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Ph.D. Brandeis University

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. He leads the Contested Illnesses Research Group, directs the Community Outreach Core of Brown’s Superfund Basic Research Program, and directs the Societal Impacts Core of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation.

He is the author of No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action, co-editor of the collection Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine, co-editor of Social Movements in Health, and author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement.

His current research includes labor-environment coalitions, connections between breast cancer activism and environmental justice, biomonitoring, nanoscientists’ views of social and ethical impacts, and health social movements. He is currently at work on a collection, Contested Illnesses: Ethnographic Explorations.

He works with a number of community groups, including the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island.