Maegan P Brooks

Maegan Parker Brooks is an award-winning teacher-scholar devoted to public humanities research. She studies and teaches how people communicate about challenging topics, including race, death, dying, grief, and injustice, toward the creation of more just, equitable, and nurturing communities. Her scholarship has taken traditional forms–conference papers, peer-reviewed articles, and books published with a university press–as well as more public-facing forms, including K-12 curriculum and workshop sessions, a children’s book, a BrainPOP cartoon animation, newspaper and magazine articles, a biography written for a general audience, and a PBS documentary. Brooks actively serves the community, facilitating grief support groups on Willamette's campus and at The Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families in Portland, Oregon.