Kate Brown

Kate Brown (born September 24, 1965) is an American historian and professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, renowned for her innovative non-fiction blending archival research, oral history, and literary form to explore nuclear disasters, borderlands, and environmental history. Her most notable works include Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (2013), which won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge and John H. Dunning Prizes among others, and Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (2019), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Carnegie Foundations and numerous prizes across history subfields.Kate Brown (professor) - Wikipedia)