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Lisa Brooks is an Associate Professor at Amherst College, specializing in Native American and Indigenous studies, early American literature, and digital humanities. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2004), an M.A. from Boston College (1998), and a B.A. from Goddard College (1993). Previously, she served as John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
Her research intersects Indigenous methodologies, historical geography, and community-engaged scholarship. She leads digital projects like Our Beloved Kin: Remapping King Philip's War and the Digital Atlas of Native American Intellectual Traditions, focusing on decolonizing historical narratives through interactive maps and archival recovery.
Brooks’ publications emphasize Native space, resistance literature, and decolonial praxis. Her award-winning book Our Beloved Kin (2018) reframes colonial conflicts through Indigenous perspectives, while The Common Pot (2008) examines Native writing networks in the Northeast.
- Major Awards: Bancroft Prize (2019), Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship (2016), NAISA Book Prize (2011), Dorothy Lee Award (2011)
- Service: Series editor for University of Massachusetts Press's Native Americans of the Northeast; Advisor for Yale/New England Indian Papers Project and Harvard’s Digital Archive of Native Petitions.
