Rate My Professor Brooke Bauer

Brooke Bauer is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in U.S. history from Winthrop University and her Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. A citizen of the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, Bauer is the first member of her nation to earn a Ph.D. Her research centers on Early American history with a focus on Southeastern Native Americans, including the Catawba Nation, and Indigenous responses to colonialism. She also examines Indigenous public history, material culture, and women's history.

Bauer previously served as an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina Lancaster before joining the University of Tennessee. Her book, Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and the Making of an Indigenous Identity, earned the 2023 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory. She has received additional recognition for research excellence from the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences. Bauer contributes to her field through public lectures, including the Gipson Lecture, and her work advances understanding of Native American identity and history in the colonial era.