James F. Brooks is the Gable Distinguished Chair in Early American History at the University of Georgia, and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. An interdisciplinary scholar of the Indigenous and Colonial past, he has also taught at the University of Maryland, and UC Berkeley, as well as enjoyed fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the School for Advanced Research, and Vanderbilt University’s Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. His 2002 Bancroft Prize-winning Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands focused on the traffic in women and children across the region as expressions of intercultural violence and accommodation. His book Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre appeared from WW Norton in 2016, garnering the 2017 Caughey Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West from the Western History Association, and the 2017 Ermine Wheeler-Voeglin Book Award for best book-length contribution to the field from the American Society for Ethnohistory.