Pepper Stetler is an art historian on faculty at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She researches art and photography of early twentieth-century Europe and the United States. Professor Stetler also writes extensively on issues facing people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Progressive, the Ploughshares blog and Gulf Coast. Stetler grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her BA from Barnard College and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. Her daughter, Louisa's general awesomeness inspired her to write A Measure of Intelligence.