Dedra McDonald Birzer is a lecturer of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan, and the editor-in-chief and director of the South Dakota Historical Society Press. She is currently writing an intellectual biography of Rose Wilder Lane and has published essays in the Ignatius Critical Editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights. She completed her doctorate in history at the University of New Mexico in 2000.