Brooke Newman is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of the award-winning book, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica.
Her research on the British monarchy and the history and legacies of slavery has appeared in Slate, Der Spiegel, The Washington Post, The Richmond Times Dispatch, i-news, Sky news, Vox, and Yahoo news. She has served as a historical consultant on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and is currently advising The Guardian on the royal family’s historical ties to the transatlantic slave trade.
While at MacDowell, Newman worked on a chapter of her forthcoming non-fiction book, The Queen's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery (Mariner), an examination into the little-known, centuries-long relationship between the Crown and African slavery.
