Grace Brooks

M.A. Student

advisor: Hiroshi Kitamura
Email: [[gcbrooks]]
Current Research: International relations of the interwar period, Anglo-American relations, and historical memory
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-brooks-history/

Bio

Grace is currently pursuing a terminal MA with research focused on the diplomatic failures that resulted in the Second World War and how these relations fostered the immediate post-world atmosphere that still influences pivotal decisions in current affairs. Her specialized interest is in Anglo-American relations and the ideological influences of American isolationism, which contradicted the post-war superpower status of the United States. She seeks to evaluate the pressure of this new American identity and idealism that quickened the decline of the crumbling British empire and how this collapse altered the balance of power in international affairs. Grace graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in history and a minor in Film and Media Studies from the College of William & Mary in 2023. Grace also earned honors for an undergraduate thesis entitled "Winston Churchill and the United States: The 'Wilderness Years,'" which explored the role of Churchill's public image in the strained Anglo-American relations of the 1920s and 1930s.