Victoria L. McAlister is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Towson University. She received her PhD in History from Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of the book The Irish Tower House and is the general editor of Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies. She also writes about castles and related topics in a regular column for Medieval Warfare magazine. She has received several teaching awards, including the Southeastern Medieval Association’s Award for Teaching Excellence.