Zook, Melinda S.

Melinda S. Zook is a historian, academic, and author. She is the Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts within the College of Liberal Arts and the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History in the Department of History at Purdue University. Zook's research spans the history of political thought, religion, and women in early modern Britain, with published articles covering topics such as radical politics, martyrdom, political poetry, women, religion, and teaching. She has authored two books titled Radical Whigs & Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England and Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714, the latter of which was awarded the Best Book on Gender for 2013 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She is also the co-editor of Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World, Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural World of Early Modern Women, and Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy. In addition, she has received awards from Purdue University including the Mortar Board Society Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion Award in 2019 and the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2022.