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Irish-British sociologist

John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA (born 1951) is an Irish-British sociologist who was the former President of the British Sociological Association (2009–2012), and was Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast (2013–2023), and is now emeritus Professor in the Mitchell Institute. He was awarded the 2023 Distinguished Service Prize by the British Sociological Association for service to British sociology. He is also Honorary Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University (2017–present) and Honorary Professor of Sociology, Warwick University (2021–present). He was formerly Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen (2004–2013). He is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts for his work on peace processes (2010–present). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Brunel University for services to social science.

Background

Born in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, in 1951, he lived in nearby Cleobury Mortimer until he went to university. He was Head Boy at Lacon Childe School in Cleobury Mortimer and won the British Sugar Corporation Prize for his A-Levels at Kidderminster College of Further Education. He played football and cricket for Shropshire schoolboys. He has taught in numerous universities in the UK, United States and Australia.

Academic work

Brewer was educated at the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham. He was Professor of Sociology, and former Head of Department of Sociology (2004–2007), at Aberdeen University, moving from Queen's University, Belfast in July 2004, to which he returned in 2013 as its first Professor of Post Conflict Studies. He was Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Queen's between 1993 and 2002. Brewer taught at the University of East Anglia before moving to Queen's in 1981. He has he

Governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015

Janice Kay Brewer (néeDrinkwine, formerly Warren; born September 26, 1944) is an American politician and author who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Brewer is the fourth woman (and was the third consecutive woman) to be Governor of Arizona. Brewer assumed the governorship as part of the line of succession, as determined by the Arizona Constitution, when Governor Janet Napolitano resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer had been Secretary of State of Arizona from January 2003 to January 2009.

Born in California, Brewer attended Glendale Community College, from where she received a radiological technologist certificate. She has never earned a college degree. She was a state representative and state senator for Arizona from 1983 to 1996. She was chairman of the Maricopa County Board of

• Region(s): Europe
• Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme(s): Political History; Intellectual History; History of the Book; Economic History

John Brewer's current research interests are focused on two areas: issues of value in the visual-art world and questions of travel, tourism, identity, and place.   

He has had a long-standing interest in the fraught relationship between culture and money, on which he has written extensively over the last 10 years. Starting with the assumption that the art world is dominated by a shared struggle over value, ownership, and the meaning of art, Brewer is examining questions such as: What makes a work of art great? What makes it valuable? Is it genuine or a fake? To whom does it belong—an individual owner, a culture, a nation, or humanity? Artists, scholars, curators, patrons, collectors, dealers, and even the public have their own answers to these questions. Brewer is studying these debates and their participants over the last five centuries.

Part of this project has already appeared as The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art, and Money (Oxford University Press, 2009), but he continues to pursue this topic through an ongoing investigation of the place of curators in fine-art museums and their complex relations with art scientists and conservators, as well as their struggle to retain their integrity in a world increasingly dominated by market forces.

Brewer's second project examines travel, tourism, and identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time when the terms "tourism" and "tourist" first came into common use. He asks: What was the nature and purpose of tourism, how did tourists affect the identity and economy of the places they visited, and how have relations between travelers and natives changed in a world increasingly characterized by high levels of mobility? He is currently engaged in a majo