NANCY MARIE ROBERTSON

Associate Professor of History. A.B. Mount Holyoke College, 1978, Ph.D. New York University, 1997.

Teaching Interests: U.S. history, late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, American philanthropy, women, social, and race. Awards: Gateway Scholar (2004-05).

Research Interests: white and black Protestant women and U.S. racial reform in the first half of the twentieth century.

Publications: Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-1946 (University of Illinois Press, 2007). "Kindness or Justice? Women’s Associations and the Politics of Race and History" in Private Action and the Public Good, edited by Walter W. Powell and Elisabeth S. Clemens (Yale University Press, 1998). "‘Without Documents No History’: Sources and Strategies for Researching the YWCA" in Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City, edited by Nina Mjagkij and Margaret Spratt (New York University Press, 1997). Entries in the Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press, 1995), the Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (2001), and in Civil Rights in the United States (2001). Reviews in Contemporary Sociology.

Office: CA 503T
Phone: (317) 274-8017
nmrobert@iupui.edu