Below are the 80+ concentrations offered at Brown, categorized by general field of study. Each section contains more specific information on materials related to your academic interests. Subjects link to specific library guides, which are compilations of course materials, past exhibits, and initiatives relating to a specific subject area that are created by Subject Librarians at Brown. Some concentrations do not have associated library guides but the Hay still has related materials. Search Josiah or email hay@brown.edu.
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Arts
Angela Lorenz ’87 “r.ed” exhibition
- History of Art and Architecture
- Modern Culture and Media
- Music
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Visual Art
Collections of Interest at the Hay
- Art and Architecture Collections
- Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
- Book Arts Collections
- Graphic Arts Collections
- Artist Books – Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- Harris Music Collection
- Performing Arts Collections
Humanities
- Brown University Archives
- Comparative Literature
A folio depicting the myth of Pope Joan in the Nuremberg Chronicle, a secular and ecclesiastic world history printed in 1496.
- Education Studies
- English
- Gender and Sexuality
- History
- Literary Arts
- Medieval Cultures
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Collections of Interest at the Hay
- Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
- Brown University Archives
- Chronicles of Brunonia
- Early Printed Books Collections
- Education Studies
- Gender Studies Collections
- Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- Lincoln Collection
- Literature, Non-United States
- Literature, United States
- Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts Collection
- Religion Collections
- Smith Magic Collection
- Global History Collections
- United States History Collections
Language and Cultural Studies
Language Studies Library Guides
- Africana Studies
A bibliography of the major rabbinic thinkers in Spain from the 11th through 15th century, printed in 1781.
- American Studies
- Classics
- East Asian Studies
- Egyptology and Assyriology*
- Ethnic Studies
- French and Francophone Studies
- German Studies
- Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
- Italian Studies
- Judaic Studies
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Middle East Studies
- Native and Indigenous Studies
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
- Slavic Studies
- South Asian Studies*
Collections of Interest at the Hay
- American Culture and Society Collections
- Asian Studies Collections
- Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
- Collections on Race and Ethnicity
- Collections on Middle East
- Indigenous Languages, Texts – George Earl Church Collection
- Iberia, Latin, and Latino American Collections
- Non-Western Language and Literature Collections
- Romance Language Collection
- Russian and Eastern Europe Collections
- South Asian Studies Collections
- Yiddish-American Literature
Life and Physical Sciences
Life Sciences Library Guides
Physical Sciences Library Guides
- Applied Mathematics & APMA-Biology, Computer Science, Economics
A schematic from the pseudo-scientific text “Crania Americana“
- Astronomy
- Biological and Life Sciences
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Chemical Physics
- Computer Science, CS-Economics
- Open Data sources
- Engineering
- Engineering – Physics
- Environmental Studies and Science
- Geological Sciences & GEO-Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Mathematics
- Health and Human Biology
- Mathematics & MATH-Computer Science, Economics
- Medical and Life Sciences
- Neuroscience*
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Physics
- Physics and Philosophy* – see Physics or Philosophy library guides
- Statistics
Collections of Interest at the Hay
- History of Medicine Collections
- History of Science Collection
- Additional History of Science Collections
- Lownes History of Science Collection
Images from Sphaera Mundi
Social Sciences
Social Sciences Library Guides
Signature of Martin Luther King Jr. in the visitor’s log of the Lincoln Room at the John Hay Library.
- Anthropology
- Archaeology and the Ancient World
- Business Entrepreneurship Organizations
- Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
- Development Studies
- Economics
- International Relations
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Public Humanities
- Public Policy
- Race and Ethnicity
- Science and Society
- Social Analysis & Research
- Sociology