Nancy Bristow

Nancy Bristow is a Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. Her research focuses on 20th-century American history, particularly race and social change. She specializes in state-sanctioned violence against African Americans during the Black Power era and has written extensively on topics like the 1918 influenza pandemic and social engineering during World War I. Currently, she is completing a teaching text on the 1970 Jackson State College shootings under contract with Oxford University Press.

Education:

• BA, Colorado College, 1980
• MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1983
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Her leadership roles include serving on the Race and Pedagogy Initiative at the University of Puget Sound and the editorial board of The American Historian (OAH). She is affiliated with the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.

Her work bridges historical analysis with pedagogical innovation, emphasizing critical engagement with race and violence in American history.