Prof. John Brooke

BIOGRAPHY

Professor John Brooke is Warner Woodring Chair in American History and the director of the Center for Historical Research at the Ohio State University (OSU). He specialises in Early American History and Environmental History. He has written widely within these fields, including his books The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861 and The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844.