Biography;

Political scientist; university professor. Born–1964, Utah.  Parents– Thomas E. and Marilyn Jensen Brown.  Married; children–seven.  B.A., Brigham Young University, 1991; University of Virginia, M.A., 1995; Ph. D., 1998. .  Professor of political science at Auburn, 1998-. Published articles in many scholarly journals. Received the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, awarded by the National Communication Association, 2005; National Faculty of the Year Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2006.

Source: 

Auburn University Website.

Publications;

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court:  Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest.  University of Alabama Press, 2o12.

Trumping Religion:  The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts. University of Alabama Press, 2002.