Cynthia Stokes Brown is Professor Emerita, Dominican University of California. She devoted twenty years to directing and/or teaching in the single subject credential program. She is the author of Refusing Racism: White Allies in the Struggle for Civil Rights (Teachers College Press) and Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New Press, 2007). She is currently writing the first college-level textbook on Big History with two other leading scholars in the field: David Christian and Craig Benjamin. She and eight other faculty members are piloting a survey course in Big History required for all freshmen at Dominican University.
