Natasha Zaretsky

Natasha Zaretsky is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She joined UAB in Fall 2019 after teaching for nearly two decades at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her research and teaching interests span contemporary U.S. political culture, histories of women, gender, and the family, energy and environmental history, and post-Vietnam U.S. nationalism.

• Education: B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University

Her scholarship explores the contradictions between the 1960s social transformations and the subsequent polarization of U.S. political culture, informed by her upbringing in a family active in antiwar, New Left, and feminist movements. She engages with students from rural, conservative backgrounds to refine understandings of contemporary liberalism and conservatism.

Natasha resides in Homewood, Alabama, with her husband, two children, and a dog named Ruthie. She is affiliated with UAB's College of Arts and Sciences, contributing to academic discourse through her expertise in American history and culture.