Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Education

• 2025 — PhD, Arts Practice (Dance), University of Limerick, Irish World Academy
  Dissertation: Intimate Violence: Feeling Impact in Irish Step Dance (accepted without corrections)
• 2015 — MA, Irish & Irish American Studies, New York University
  Coursework in founding Dept. of Performance Studies
• 2004 — BA, Music (Business minor), Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory
• 2003 — Certificate, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Univ. of Maryland / Institute for Jaques-Dalcroze Education

Scholarships, Residencies & Funding

• 2015–2018 — Half-tuition Scholarship Award, University of Limerick (PhD)
• 2013–2015 — Half-tuition Scholarship Award, New York University (MA)
• 2018 — Full Facebook Scholarship, Flatiron School (Full-Stack Web Development)
• 2017 (Jan–May) — Dance Artist in Residence, UCD School of English, Drama and Film
• 2017 — Shortlisted, UCD Parity Studios Artist Residency (College of Business; 7 finalists of 120+)

Research & Academic Engagement

• 2024–Present — Member, ERIAC (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture)
• 2023–Present — Reviewer Pool, International Journal of Romani Studies
• 2018–2022 — Contributing Member, Roma Peoples Project, Columbia University
• 2023 — Peer Review completed, Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Books)
• 2022 — Collaborator, Celebrate & Recalibrate Flamenco (Coventry University)

Conference Presentations (Selected)

• 2025 — Dance Studies Association Annual Conference — Washington, DC
• 2024 — Early Dance Symposium — University of Pennsylvania
• 2023 — Dance Studies Association Symposium — The Place, London
• 2022 — Critical Romani Studies Conference — Stockholm
• 2020 — Growing Up Roma — Columbia University SIPA, New York
• 2019 — Growing Up Roma — Flemish Consulate, New York City

Publications

• 2025 — Timedancers (Substack newsletter). https://newsletter.timedancers.org
• 2025 — Brown, Intimate Violence: Feeling Impact in Irish Step Dance. Self-published.
• 2022 — Brown, "This Little Wooden World: Choreo-Navigating Maritime Dance." In Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots: The Body Questions, edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• 2022 — Celebrate & Recalibrate Flamenco Project — Coventry University.
• Submitted — Brown, "'I bring a wheel from over my heart': Dance, Feeling and Gypsyism." In edited collection on Antigypsyism (ed. Dezső Máté)

Performances & Artistic Work

• 2025 — who is allowed to fall — Teach Cheoil, Ennistymon. Podcast workshop performance-conversation (harp + step dance; hybrid)
• 2023 — AngelAI — Irish World Academy, Theatre 1 (University of Limerick). 30-minute performance (Irish step + harp/sonic textures) as part of PhD research

Professional Experience

• 2022–Present — People, Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith; legacy Time Inc.), New York — Engineering Manager, Performance
• 2019–2022 — Fortune Media, New York — Technical Lead

Press & Media

• 2025 — "Rediscovering the Romani identity." The Clare Champion.
• 2025 — "UL graduate embraces identity and heals trauma through dance." Live95.
• 2025 — "I am whole: Journey in dance helped UL graduate embrace identity and heal trauma." University of Limerick News.
• 2025 — "Journey in dance helped UL graduate embrace identity." The Clare Herald.
• 2023 — "Holdout tenant in $1,500 West Village apartment fears demolition of historic townhouse." Gothamist.
• 2020 — "Fortune adopts paywall in major redesign of site, magazine." New York Post.
• 2019 — "Growing Up Roma in America: Russell's Story." Roma Peoples Project.
• 2012 — "Russell Patrick Brown." Time Out New York.
• 2011 — "In Focus: artist, musician and dancer — Russell Patrick Brown." IrishCentral.
• 2009 — "A hot front." New York Post.

Languages

English (Fluent) · Spanish (Intermediate) · Irish (Advanced Beginner) · Romungró (Beginner) · German (Beginner) · French (Beginner)