Bradley Birzer, the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College, is a 1990 alumnus of the University of Notre Dame. On April 6, he will return to campus to give a talk about his about his recent book, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. Birzer is the author of several books, including American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, and the co-founder of the online publication, The Imaginative Conservative.
