Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is an award-winning historian of early modern Britain and the British monarchy, with a research specialization in the history and legacies of slavery. Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, i-news, and Scalawag Magazine, and her research on the Crown’s historical links to slavery has been featured by the BBC, NPR, PRX, Vox, the Jamaica Gleaner, Yahoo News, CBC, ABC, Time, Smithsonian Magazine, the Richmond Times Dispatch, Al Jazeera, and other outlets.

Brooke has received fellowships from MacDowell, the American Philosophical Society, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Georgian Papers Programme for research in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, the William Clements Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, among others. She’ll be in residence at the American Philosophical Society for 2023-24 as the APS-NEH Sabbatical Fellow.  She received her B.A. in History/English from Texas State University and her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Davis. Born and raised in Houston, she currently lives in Richmond with her family.