Dr. Brown is internationally recognized for her scholarship on children in poverty, as well as her research on arts programming. For the past several years, Brown has partnered with Settlement Music School’s Kaleidoscope Arts Enrichment Preschool to study arts’ impact. The leading journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly published her 2010 paper on “Arts Enrichment and School Readiness” and her 2012 paper on “Arts Enrichment and Preschool Emotions.” Brown’s current research on the arts and cortisol for economically disadvantaged children is funded through the NEA Art Works Research grants program.