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Lisa Brooks is a historian, writer, and professor of English and American studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts where she specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present.

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Brooks is a member of the state-recognized Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe, an Abenaki heritage group in Vermont, and is also of Polish heritage. [1] [2] She received her B.A. at Goddard College (1993) and her M.A. at Boston College (1995) and Ph.D. at the Cornell University (2004). [3] [4] She is the author of many articles, essays and popular books including, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, (2008) [5] and Our Beloved Kin (2018). [1] Brooks taught at Harvard University before moving to teach at Amherst College. Brooks teaches several classes on "Native American & Indigenous studies, early American literature, contemporary literature, and comparative American Studies" [3] In 2019, Our Beloved Kin was one of the winners of the Bancroft Prize. [6]

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  1. 1 2 Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin (Yale University Press, 2018)
  2. "Professor Lisa Brooks". Amherst College . Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  3. 1 2 "Faculty & Staff - Brooks, Lisa - Amherst College". www.amherst.edu.
  4. "Lisa T. Brooks | American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program". aiisp.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  5. The Common Pot — University of Minnesota Press, (2008) https://www.upress.umn.edu
  6. Schuessler, Jennifer (March 7, 2019). "Bancroft Prize for History Is Awarded to 2 Scholars". New York Times. Retrieved January 11, 2020.