John L. Brooke

John L. Brooke
Born	1953 (age 70–71)
Awards	Merle Curti Award Bancroft Prize Guggenheim Fellowship
Academic background
Education	Cornell University University of Pennsylvania
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Institutions	Franklin & Marshall College Amherst College Tufts University Ohio State University

John L. Brooke (born 1953) is an American historian.

Life

Brooke graduated from Cornell University in 1975, and from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1982. He taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Amherst College, and Tufts University. He most recently teaches at Ohio State University.

Awards

• 1991 Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians
• National Historical Society Book Prize
• 1995 Bancroft Prize
• 1997 Guggenheim Fellow
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

Works

• The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861. Cambridge University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-521-67339-6. (2nd edition 2005)
• The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-56564-6.
• Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-521-69218-2.
• There Is A North. Massachusetts Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-62534-447-2.