Cara Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University, where she teaches courses on the Age of Enlightenment, American history from the colonial era until the Civil War, and Thomas Jefferson. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Ph.D. from Rice University. Her research has been published by the Journal of Southern History and American Political Thought, and she has also written for the Journal of the Early Republic. Her dissertation, under revision for publication, examines the ways in which Jefferson’s book Notes on the State of Virginia influenced debates over race and slavery.