Lisa Brooks is an 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. Brooks is of Abenaki and Polish heritage and received her B.A. at Goddard College (1993) and her M.A. at Boston College (1995) and Ph.D. at the Cornell University (2004). She is the author of many articles, essays and popular books including, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, (2008) and Our Beloved Kin (2018). 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" In 2019, Our Beloved Kin was one of the winners of the Bancroft Prize. Works Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's War, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2018. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008. References External links Faculty page Amherst College faculty Cornell University alumni Boston College alumni Living people 21st-century American historians Historians of the United States Year of birth missing (living people) Native American writers Goddard College alumni Abenaki people Bancroft Prize winners