She particularly enjoyed the supervision of classroom practice by her student teachers, where she gave honest feedback and encouraged them to develop skills as discussion leaders. Cynthia and Jim divorced in 1980.Īfter raising her sons, Cynthia returned to professional life in 1982, directing the secondary teaching credential program at Dominican University of California. They moved in 1969 to Berkeley, CA, where Jim became director of student health at UC-Berkeley. They served in the Peace Corps in Brazil from 1965-67 and welcomed their second son, Ivor Stanley Brown, in Fortaleza in 1966. After being awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Cynthia completed her doctoral studies in 1964 in the history of education, while teaching high school world history and developing a passion for helping others understand history.Ĭynthia and Jim married in 1961 and welcomed their first son, Erik Elam Brown, three years later. Brown, moved to Baltimore, MD, where she earned a master’s degree in teaching at Johns Hopkins University. Cynthia majored in history at Duke University because, as she said, “it seemed to include everything.” After graduating in 1960, she and her future husband, James R. The deeply segregated Southern culture made a lasting imprint on her, influencing her pursuit and writing of social justice throughout her life. Cynthia approached the last weeks of her life with a fearless and joyful outlook and accepted death as part of the cycle of life.Ĭynthia was born in 1938 to Louise Bast Stokes and Stanley Thomas Stokes and grew up with brother Jim and sisters Susan and Fran in Madisonville, in the farming and coal region of western Kentucky. 2019 Life in the Universe Symposium InformationĬynthia Stokes Brown died at home on October 15, 2017, of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 79, surrounded by her loving family.Soils, Roots and Civilization: Malaysia’s Big History and our Global Future.2021 Big History Conference Call for Papers.2021 Big History Post Conference Events Details.
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