Her research includes understanding group differences, goals and motivation, system justification, social change, educational psychology, and political psychology in the STEM fields. Dr. Brown received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Miami University in 2011. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Montana State University from 2012-2014 working on Project Cure (The Culture of Undergraduate Research Experiences) before coming to UNF in 2015. She is a co-recipient of the Graduate Student Research Award at the Midwestern Psychological Association (May 2011), a recipient of the Graduate School Dissertation Award, Miami University (November 2010), the co-recipient of the Unger-Freize Poster Award at the Association for Women in Psychology (February 2010), and the recipient of the Love of Learning Award, Phi Kappa Phi (August 2007).