Alice Nash

Alice Nash is an Associate Professor of History and Graduate Program Director at the University of Massachusetts. She specializes in Native American history, Indigenous studies, and Early American history, with a focus on colonial impacts on family/gender relations and contemporary Indigenous rights. She holds a PhD from Columbia University (1997).

Her research includes the Fulbright-Université de Montréal Chair (2003–2004), NEH grants (2013–2019), and co-authorship of Daily Life of Native Americans (2006) and the Routledge Handbook (2019). She teaches courses like Indigenous Histories for STEM and directs the Teaching Native American Histories program for K–12 educators.

Awards include four NEH grants and leadership roles, including Chair of the Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Advisory Board at Dumbarton Oaks.