Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Details
Vita
Since coming to Penn State Harrisburg in 1971, Dr. Brown has consulted with a variety of organizations, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate and numerous industrial groups and firms. In addition, he has worked with a variety of law firms as an expert witness.
Dr. Brown has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles and monographs. His research has focused on transportation, government regulation, and supply chain issues.
Education
- D.B.A., University of Maryland
- M.B.A., University of Maryland
- B.S., University of Maryland
Research Areas
- Transportation
- Business logistics
- Marketing
Continuing Education Interests
- Business logistics
- Transportation
Professional Affiliations
- American Marketing Association
- American Society of Transportation and Logistics
- Council of Logistics Management
College News
Research to investigate victimization in Latino community
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has been awarded a $680,000 federal grant to help eliminate a research gap profiling victimization in the Latino community.
Assistant Professor of Social Science Chiara Sabina received the two-year grant from the National Institute of Justice to focus on the national level of dating violence and victimization among Latino adolescents which she a terms “mush more understudied” group than others in that community.
Sen. Vance to deliver commencement keynote
State Senator Patricia H. Vance will deliver the keynote address when Penn State Harrisburg confers more than 500 undergraduate and graduate degrees during fall commencement ceremonies Saturday, December 19.
The ceremonies for students who have earned associate, bachelor’s master’s, and doctoral degrees will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Giant Center, Hershey.
Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia
Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.
Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.