Stephen Brown

Stephen Brown is a professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also affiliated with the School of International Development and Global Studies. His research focuses mainly on the intersection of domestic and international politics. He has published extensively on democratization, political violence, peacebuilding and transitional justice/rule of law in several African countries. He has also conducted research on foreign aid in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mongolia and Peru, as well as on global COVID-19 vaccine inequities. He is now primarily carrying out research on international LGBTQI+ rights. His current projects are on 1) how people in several African countries use domestic courts to try to force their governments to decriminalize homosexuality, and 2) LGBTQI+ rights and Canadian foreign policy. He has been a visiting scholar at universities and research institutes in Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and the United Kingdom. He maintains a website at https://stephenbrown.xyz/. Pronouns: he/him.