James F. Brooks is President and CEO of the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002) garnered eight distinguished prizes, including the first ever "Triple Crown" of the Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes. He is also author of Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo (2007).

Lecture topics:

• Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
• Violence and Identity in the American Southwest
• Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo
• The Indian-Black Experience in North America

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