Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
Douglas.Brown@umanitoba.ca
Douglas Brown, PhD
Biography
Dr. Douglas A. Brown holds a PhD in Sport History from the University of Western Ontario.
His research has focused on the origins of the Modern Olympic Games, early Canadian Mountaineering and winter sports, generally. He is widely published in international publications and his research has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Dr. Brown served as dean of the faculty from 2013 to 2026.
Education
- PhD (Sport History), University of Western Ontario (1997)
- M.P.E. (Sport Administration), University of Ottawa (1988)
- BA/B.P.H.E., Queen's University (1985)
Research summary
Dr. Brown explores themes such as identity, ethnicity and human agency within sport as well as the aesthetics or poetics of sport participation.