The seven audio-recorded oral history interviews with emerita history professor, Cynthia Stokes Brown (1938 - 2017) are part of the Cynthia Stokes Brown Collection which also includes her personal papers and private book collection (in process). Each interview, conducted by separate Dominican Faculty members, focuses on different aspects of Cynthia’s life, work, beliefs, and family.
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Personal Views on Relationships & Teaching
Mojgan Behmand
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita, Cynthia Stokes Brown. Professor Brown discusses her personal views on teaching, feminism, sexuality, love, marriage, family, dying, and interpersonal communications. Implementing Big History at Dominican University of California is also examined.
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Geography, Gender, Writing, and Big History
Thomas Burke
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita, Cynthia Stokes Brown. Subjects include: American South; American East Coast; Berkeley, California; Brazil and their influence on her life and career. As well as marriage and family balance; Septima Clark biography; feminism; Big History scholarly community and gender; thoughts on Big History's future as an academic field; writing and research.
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Major Decision Points in Life
Jordan Lieser
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita, Cynthia Stokes Brown. Professor Brown reflects on major "decision points" in her personal and professional life and explains her various decision making processes. Topics include her decision to attend Duke University, activism against segregation, early career choices, love and marriage, professional career choices, her history of Big History, her children, and faith.
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Family & Early Influences
J. Daniel May and Cynthia Taylor
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita, Cynthia Stokes Brown. Professor Brown speaks at length about her upbringing, her family, and the influences that first shaped her intellectual and moral outlook. She explains how those early influences also shaped her career as a historian, educator, and finally as a "Big Historian."
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Experience at Dominican University of California
Annie Reid
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita Cynthia Stokes Brown. Professor Brown describes her experiences at Dominican University of California in the 1980s through the 2000s. She highlights her teaching in both the History and Education departments, direction of the teacher credential program, Big History courses, and special relationships she had with students and faculty.
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Relationships with Religion, Death & Dying
Richard Simon
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita, Cynthia Stokes Brown. Professor Brown discusses her relationships with religion and death & dying. She also talks about Religion Through the Lens of Big History, social action, naturalism, yoga, and her travel journals.
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Big History Philosophy, Curriculum, and Writing
Harlan Stelmach
Audio-recorded interview with Dominican history professor emerita, Cynthia Stokes Brown. Professor Brown discusses writing on Big History, Big History philosophy and curriculum, as well as the Big History origin story; both in general and at Dominican University of California, and the Future of Big History.