Brown, Robert (b. 1981) is an American journalist and narrative historian whose reporting has focused on Eastern and Central Europe. A graduate of the University of Oregon and Columbia Journalism School, he covered post-Communist transitions for Reuters and public radio, reporting from Bucharest, Kraków, Sarajevo, and Chișinău between 2007 and 2016. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and he has won the Anson Reporter Prize and a Midwest Journalism Association award for longform features. Brown has taught narrative nonfiction at Northwestern University and served as a visiting fellow at the Central European University's history department. He lives in Chicago, speaks conversational Romanian, and can often be found repairing old tape recorders and hiking along Lake Michigan in every season.
