Melinda S. Zook is the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History and Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts for the College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University. She specializes in the history of political thought, religion, and women in early modern Britain and teaches courses on English and medieval history, as well as on such topics as Shakespeare’s kings and the history of toleration. She has published articles on radical politics, martyrdom, political poetry, queenship, religion, and teaching. She is the author of Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in late Stuart England (1999; paper, 2009) and Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714 (2013) which was awarded Best Book on Gender for 2013 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She also co-edited, Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World (2004) and Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural World of Early Modern Women (2014); and Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy (2018). Her current project is entitled The Art of Liberal Arts: How to Reach, Teach, and Transform the Next Generation (under contract with Princeton University Press).