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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Prize-winning Legal Scholar & Historian

Tomiko Brown Nagin is a prize-winning author, eminent legal scholar and historian.

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Tomiko Brown Nagin is a prize-winning author, eminent legal scholar and historian, dean of Harvard’s renowned Radcliffe Institute, and pathbreaking leader in higher education. Her groundbreaking book, Courage to Dissent, won the Bancroft Prize in 2011, and her latest book, The Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and Struggles for Equality (Pantheon, 2022), has received rave reviews.

A distinguished lecturer and frequent media commentator about American reform movements, law and social change, and equity and inclusion in higher education, Brown-Nagin’s thoughts on these subjects have been published in Slate, Vox, Politico, Time, U.S. News & World Report, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Education. And she has offered commentary for Bloomberg News, MSNBC, CBS News, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, the New Republic, among other media outlets.

Brown-Nagin has acquired discipline- and sector-spanning insights and experiences during her twenty-year career: she has testified before Congress about civil liberties, developed innovative educational programs, built strategic partnerships, cultivated varied constituencies, managed diverse professional teams, taught and advised hundreds of students, and as a lawyer, represented clients ranging from students seeking access to higher education and Fortune 500 companies defending business practices.

Brown-Nagin has been honored for her leadership by WGBH and the Massachusetts Black Bar Association, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Women’s Forum.

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Higher Education & Social Mobility

Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement for Changemakers

Gender & Leadership: Constance Baker Motley & the Rise of Women Professionals & Powerbrokers

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Tomiko Brown-Nagin named dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Tomiko Brown-Nagin | Social Movements and Social Change in Twentieth Century America

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