Dona Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of History.  She came to UVM in 1994 after having earned her Ph. D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her book, Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), explores the significance of the tourist trade in creating an enduring image of New England. She has also published a number of articles on the history of tourism and regionalism, and is the editor of a collection of nineteenth-century tourist stories (A Tourist's New England: Travel Fiction, 1820-1920).  She teaches courses in United States cultural history, New England history, and Vermont history.  Many of her courses are cross-listed with the Vermont Studies program, and she was director of the Center for Research on Vermont from 2003 to 2006.  She is currently working on a book about American back-to-the-land movements in the twentieth century.