Lorri Glover

Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair, Department of History, Saint Louis University. She is the author of four books on early American history with a focus on siblings and kinship in colonial South Carolina, masculinity in the Early Republic, the seventeenth-century colonization of Virginia and Bermuda, the intersection of family and politics in the lives of leading American Revolutionaries, and the fierce debates over the ratification of the US Constitution. Her most recent book is a biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an eighteenth-century globetrotter, entrepreneur, planter, enslaver, and head of a powerful and prominent family—who also happened to be a woman. The biography was published by Yale University Press in August 2020. In addition, Dr. Glover collaborated with longtime editing partner Craig Thompson Friend to publish a collection of essays in March 2020 that brings together the talents of over three dozen leading scholars of the American South to explain the trends and innovations in the region’s history, from the sixteenth century to the twenty first.