During 2016-2017, she taught politics and international studies courses at Wake Forest University. She has held predoctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships at Georgetown University (2014-2015) and the Free University of Berlin (2015-2016), and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota in 2015. Brooke specializes in international relations, and her research interests include international security; international norms, law, and organizations; international relations of the global South (especially Africa); and the regional level of global governance.