Brooke Newman

Brooke N. Newman is an American historian. She is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Biography Newman was born and raised in Houston, Texas, United States.

Newman earned a bachelor's degree in history and English from Texas State University and a PhD in history from the University of California, Davis.

Publications Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Co-editor with Gregory D. Smithers. A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica. Yale, 2018 The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy. Mariner, 2026