The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents Abenaki historian and literary scholar Dr. Lisa Brooks on Thursday, November 7, 2019, from 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall. Brooks is the author of the recent award winning book, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, and will be speaking as part of this year’s symposium theme, “Society, Colonization, and Decolonization.” Brooks is a professor of English and American studies at Amherst College, where she specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present.