Lorri Glover graduated from UNA in 1990, majoring in history and political science. She went on to earn her MA in history from Clemson University and PhD from the University of Kentucky. She taught at the University of Tennessee for twelve years before moving to Saint Louis University in 2009, where she is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair of History. Lorri has published ten books in American history, most recently Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution and Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries, both published by Yale University Press. She is a past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, served on the editorial board of the Journal of Southern History, and was a distinguished lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. In October 2016, she delivered the Nelson Lecture at UNA, in honor of her treasured mentor, Larry Nelson, and in 2017 was named Outstanding Educator by the UNA Alumni Association.