Lisa Brooks Amherst College Lisa Brooks Amherst College Massachusetts Unlike many successful authors and professors in the modern world, Lisa Brooks of Amherst College is not on social media. If you know her, this is no shock. She is a grounded lover of land who prefers to spend her time tracking and gardening rather than tweeting. This down-to-earth perspective has done her well, as she won the Bancroft Prize for American History and Diplomacy and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Users who follow Lisa Brooks Amherst College