Taryrn T.C. Brown
Assistant Professor

Phone
352-273-4232
Address
PO Box 117048
Gainesville, FL 32611
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Affiliations
- School of Teaching and Learning
- Collaborative for Equity in Education
- Education Policy Research Center
Education
- Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice, 2018 Emphasis in Critical Studies, University of Georgia
- M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration, 2009, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- B.A. in Media Studies and African American Studies, 2007, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Professional Appointments
- Assistant Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, (2023-Present)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, (2019-2023)
Activities and Honors
- Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, (2021 - present)
- Rosser Educator Excellence Award, College of Education, University of Florida (2022)
- Ethnic Studies Educators Academy, Democratizing Racial Justice, Mellon Foundation Grant
- Mentor of the Year, College of Education, University of Florida (2022)
- Teacher of the Year, College of Education, University of Florida, (2021)
- Research Catalyst, Lastinger Center, College of Education, University of Florida
- Provost Travel and Professional Development Award, College of Education, University of Florida
- Rotary Deans Service Award, College of Education, University of Georgia, (2017)
- Women Pioneers in Education Scholarship, College of Education, University of Georgia, (2016)
Selected Grants
Collaborative for Equity in Education CDF Freedom School
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Alachua County Public Schools
Project Period
- 2022-2024
Award Amount
- $150,000
Collaborative for Equity in Education CDF Freedom School
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Children's Trust of Alachua County
Project Period
- 2022-2023
Award Amount
- $110,000
Collaborative for Equity in Education CDF Freedom School
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Chidlren's Trust of Alachua County
Project Period
- 2021-2022
Award Amount
- $60,000
Enhancing Access Through Algebra Nation, Phase 2
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Gates Foundation
Project Period
- 2021-2024
Award Amount
- $999,997.54
Enhancing Access Through Algebra Nation, Phase 1
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Gates Foundation
Project Period
- 2020-2021
Award Amount
- $99,785
Matrix of Anti-Racism across the Curriculum (MARC): Building theory and instrumentation to address race across the undergraduate curriculum
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- University of Florida Racial Justice Research Fund
Project Period
- 2020-2021
Award Amount
- $60,000
Too Lit to Quit: An Arts and Education Co-Lab to Explore Health, Literacy, and the Academic Achievement Gap in Alachua County schools
Role
- Senior Collaborator
Funding Agency
- Creative Campus Catalyst Fund
Project Period
- 2019-2020
Award Amount
- $11,000
Black Educators Reading Group of Gainesville
Role
- Collaborator
Project Period
- 2019
Award Amount
- $500
Selected Publications
Presentations
- Brown, T., Anderson, B., and Wigfall, K. (2023, August 1). Panning for Gold in Alternative Schools: Engaging Talent Potential in Ways Unimagined [Paper Session] NAGC Equity Symposium.
- Brown, T. (2023, April 13- 16). All of Me: Centering Homeplace in Personal and Professional Reflections of Becoming a Blackgirl Motherscholar [Symposium Session]. AERA Annual Meeting
- Brown, T., Coleman-King, C., Jung, H., Harper, F., Pierre, T.*, & John, K.* (2023, April 13- 16). Black People Are Not a Monolith: Designing and Nuancing Culturally Responsive Mathematics [Symposium Session]. AERA Annual Meeting.
- Brown, T., Troutman, A.* & Sobanjo, O.* (2023, April 13- 16). Now Let’s Get in Formation: Towards Black Girlhood Studies Pedagogies: A Systematic Literature Review [Paper Session]. AERA Annual Meeting.
- Brown, T. & Haynes-Thoby, L. (2023, April 13- 16). Grieving Out Loud: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Black Girlhood and Culturally Reflective Trauma Informed Care [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting
- Brown, T. (2021). Culturally Responsive Course Design: Humanizing Strategies in Online Course Design. UF College of Education, E-Learning, Technology, and Communications Webinar Series.
- Brown, T. & Murray E. (2021, April 8 - 12). Navigating a womanist caring framework: Centering womanist geographies within social foundations for black academic survival. [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference.
- Brown, T. (2020, Apr 17 - 21) Naturalized Realities of Deficit Discourses: Black Teenage Mothers' Voices, Hypervisibility, and Schooling [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/voltj6k
- Brown, T., Busey, C., Coleman-King, C., *Dowie-Chin, T., *Silva, C., *Powers, L., *Acevedo, D. (2020, March 26-29) Black Internationalism: Theory, Research, Policy, and Pedagogy: Examining the Geopolitics of Critical Race Theory in [Global South] Educational Research [Panel Session]. Miami, FL
- "Unmasking mean girls." National Youth at Risk Conference, Savannah, GA March 2017
- "Challenging Deficit Discourse: The experiences of black teenage mothers," Institute for Women's Studies: Women and Girls in Georgia Conference, Athens, GA, November 2017
- "Curricular Invitations for Critical Conversation," National Youth at Risk Conference. Savannah, GA, March 2017
- "Consumer responsibility: The importance of critical media literacy." Partnering Ambassadors for Life and Service, Athens, GA, February 2017
- "University and Community partnerships" with Tarek Grantham, Nichole Murray, Octavia Spencer, and Veronica Tinsley, Georgia Family Engagement Conference, Athens, GA, November 2016
- "Shaping a Generation: The educational experiences of black teenage mothers," Graduate and Faculty Conference, Athens, GA, April 2015
Other Publications
- Brown, T. T. (2022). Grieving Black girlhoods: Black memory work in current and (re)membered geographies of Black girls who’ve experienced loss. Journal of African American Woman and Girls in Education, 2(2), pp. 23-36.
- King, C., Brown, T., & Haynes-Thoby, L. (2022). Reclaiming my time: Black mothers cultivating the homeplace in times of crisis. Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12570
- King, C., Brown, T., Haynes-Thoby, L., & Dowie-Chin. (2022). Dreaming beyond boundaries: Reimagining the role of Black mothers in culturally sustaining pedagogy. Voices in Urban Education, Vol. 50 (2), pp. 118-127
- Brown, T. & Murray E. (2022). Navigating a womanist caring framework: Centering womanist geographies within social foundations for black academic survival. In Porter, C., Sulé, T., & Croom, N. (Eds.) Applying Black Feminist Epistemology and Praxis: Narratives in and Through the Academy, (pp. 132-142). Routledge.
- Brown, T., Chapman, L., Mathien, T., & Gonsalves, V. The anti-syllabus: Faculty and student voice in humanizing online course design. Culturally Responsive Curriculum in Higher Education. (accepted)
- Brown, T. All of me: Centering homeplace in personal and professional reflections of becoming a Blackgirl motherscholar. Gifted Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Process: Sister Insider. Routledge. (accepted)
- Brown, T. Towards uninterrupted Black girlhoods: Theorizing a strong Black girl schema. AERA Books (accepted).
- Brown, T. Defining Ourselves, For Ourselves: A critical autoethnography on mentoring as teaching in Black girlhood Studies. Black Women Who Study Black Girls. Peter Lang Publishing (accepted)
- Brown, T. Modern-day manifestations of the scarlet letter: Deficit discourse, hyper-sexuality, and Black teenage mothers. Black School(girls) in Space, Rutgers University Press (accepted)
- Jones, S., Theil, J., Woglom, J., Davila, D., Pittard, B., Brown, T. Zhou, X. & Snow, M. (2016). Childhood geographies and spatial justice: Making sense of place and space-making as political acts in education. American Educational Research Journal Vol. 53 (4) pp. 1126-1158.
- King, C. & Brown, T. (2021). Something inside so strong: Why every community needs a freedom school, especially now. Gainesville Sun.
- King, C., Brown, T., Haynes-Thoby, L., & Dowie-Chin. (2021). Dreaming beyond boundaries: Reimagining the role of Black mothers in culturally sustaining pedagogy. Voices in Urban Education.
- King, C., Brown, T., & Haynes-Thoby, L. (2021). Reclaiming my time: Black mothers cultivating the homeplace in times of crisis. Journal of Teaching and Learning. (accepted)
- Coes, J. & Brown, T. (2017). Teacher Educators Need Your Help! Education Weekly.
- Jones, S., Theil, J., Woglom, J., Davila, D., Pittard, B., Brown, T., Zhou, X. & Snow, M. (2016). Childhood geographies and spatial justice: Making sense of place and space-making as political acts in education. American Educational Research Journal Vol. 53 (4) pp. 1126-1158.