Peter Brown

Peter Brown is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He began his career at Oxford and held positions at Royal Holloway College and the University of California, Berkeley before coming to Princeton in 1986. He knows more than 26 languages and has received more than 20 honorary doctorates. Among his many accolades, Brown was awarded the Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress (2008) and the International Balzan Prize for the Humanities (2011).