Elizabeth Cobbs

Award-winning historian and author who holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. She earned a Ph.D. in American history from Stanford University. Her published works include both fiction and non-fiction spanning American history, women's narratives, and geopolitical analysis. Her books have won four literary prizes—two for American history and two for fiction. She has also won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. She served as a Fulbright scholar in Ireland and as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has advised the U.S.