James f brooks biography

American historian

James F.

Brooks is an American historian whose work on slavery, captivity and kinship in the Southwest Borderlands was honored with major national history awards: the Bancroft Prize, Francis Parkman Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Frederick Douglass Prize (second prize).

He is the Gable Professor of Early American History at the University of Georgia, and Research Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he serves as senior contributing editor of the journal The Public Historian^[1]

Early life and education

Brooks graduated from University of California, Davis, with a Ph.D.

in history. Before pursuing his career in academia, Brooks worked for a dec