Dr Kristin A. Cook is Senior Associate Tutor with the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London, and Visiting Research Fellow in Literature and Heritage at the University of Plymouth, England. Her primary research investigates US-UK cultural and strategic relations, post-war diplomatic heritage, and early Anglo-American travel writing and political exchange. She has published on presidential legacy, American literary and legal history, and the dissemination of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the early Atlantic world. Cook earned her PhD as a Doctoral Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Transatlantic Studies Association (www.transatlanticstudies.com).