About
Joanna Brooks is a strategist, advocate, and amplifier for knowledge builders and change makers working for human equity. She believes that what is most beautiful about America is the knowledge and determination of women working for change in and across diverse communities. An award-winning author or editor of ten books on race, religion, American culture, and social movements for trade and scholarly audiences, she has been featured in global media outlets including the BBC, NPR, the Daily Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post.
Publications
Towards a Postcolonial Zion: Indigenous and Global Views on Mormonism. With Gina Colvin. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, forthcoming 2018.
Saving Alex. With Alexandra Cooper. San Francisco: HarperOne, March 1, 2016.
Mormon Feminism: Forty Years of Essential Writings. With Rachel Hunt Steenblik and Hannah Wheelwright. New York: Oxford University Press, November 2015.
Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, May 2013. Nominated for the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Prize, 2014. Choice “Outstanding Academic Title,” 2013.
The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith. New York: The Free Press / Simon & Schuster, August 2012. Winner, Association for Mormon Letters award in memoir, 2013.
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions. With Lisa Moore and Caroline Wigginton. New York: Oxford University Press, Fall 2011. Choice “Outstanding Academic Title,” 2012.
The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America. New York: Oxford University Press, October 2006.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, December 2004.
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures. New York: Oxford University Press, September 2003. Paper, November 2007. Winner, Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize, 2003.
Face Zion Forward: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798. Co-edited with John Saillant. Boston: Northeastern University Press, November 2002.
