Updates
Winding down a semester full of events, Brown 2026 is looking to the spring semester. For winter 2026, Brown 2026 Reads features 4 faculty-author led discussions at the John Carter Brown Library: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – and How to Bring It Back by Marc Dunkelman; Skinfolk: A Memoir by Matthew Pratt Guterl; The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming by Jin Li; Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Noliwe Rooks.
Brown 2026 Reads registration will open on December 1, for undergraduates to receive free copies of these books thanks to support from the Dean of the College. If you are a faculty author who wants your book to be considered for Brown 2026 Reads in fall 2026, please reach out to brown2026democracy@brown.edu. The Brown 2026 website has curated a Brown 2026 curriculum for spring 2026. Please also reach out if you want your course to be added to this list. Working as an UTRA researcher for Brown 2026 co-chair Karin Wulf, Michael Zhu ’26 conducted research on the bicentennial at Brown including two oral histories for the Class of 1976 Oral History Project, which will be deposited in the University Archives. Two new UTRA students, Ian Cressman ‘28 and Mary Lynch ’29 will take over the project for the spring semester. If you know a member of the Class of 1976 who might want to participate in an oral history, please let us know. Finally, Rhode Island’s National History Day, which will be held at Brown in partnership with Rhode Island Historical Society on March 28, 2026, is open for registration for judges and volunteers. We hope that you will get involved as Brown helps to mark 250 years of American democracy.