Cynthia A. Kierner

Cindy Kierner received her PhD from the University of Virginia and is a specialist in early American history, women and gender, and disaster history. She is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH). Kierner has written or edited twelve books, including most recently The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and her Family in Revolutionary America (2023). She is also the author of the award-winning Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times (2012) and Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America (2004).