(Courtesy Sierra Nevada College)
Dr. Timothy Brown is the Chair of International Studies at Sierra Nevada College and a former research fellow at the world renowned Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Dr. Brown entered the academic field in 1990 as a Senior Fellow at New Mexico's Border Research Institute and became a Hoover fellow in 1994. His diplomatic career spanned twenty-seven years, during which he served as the Senior Liaison Officer to the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance (the Contras) and to the United Nations Cease Fire Observation Force in Central America, as Consul General in Martinique, as Deputy Coordinator for Cuban affairs, as an Economic Advisor to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), desk officer for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Energy Agency (IEA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and European Union (EU) and Paraguay and Uruguay in the Department of State. His overseas missions included service in Israel, Spain, Vietnam, Mexico, Paraguay, El Salvador, The Netherlands and France. During ten earlier years in the Marine Corps, Dr. Brown was a Thai and Spanish interpreter and Southeast Asia analyst, and performed missions in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Nicaragua Guatemala and elsewhere. He is fluent in Spanish and French.
Dr. Brown is the author of Causes of Continuing Conflict in Nicaragua (Hoover Institution Press, 2001), When the AK-47s Fall Silent-Revolutionaries, Guerrillas, and the Dangers of Peace (Hoover Institution Press, 2000), and The Real Contra War-Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). He has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times daily and weekly and professional journals, including the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Journal of American Popular Culture, and Policy Studies Review. Brown has been listed in Who's Who in the West, Men of Distinction of 1996, International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Profiles of 100 Marines, and Dictionary of International Biographies. His education includes receiving a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1965, a Masters of Arts equivalent in international trade and economics from the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, and a Ph.D. in Political Psychology, International Economics, History, and Political Science from New Mexico State University in 1997.
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