Rate My Professor Alice Nash

Alice Nash is an Associate Professor of History and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1997 and a Master’s degree in American and New England Studies from Boston University in 1989. Nash’s research interests encompass the effects of colonization on family and gender dynamics in pre-1800 Wabanaki history, northeastern Native American history, Early American history, Indigenous studies, and modern topics including the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She has published extensively on northeastern Native American history, with several articles appearing in French translation in the journal Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. Key works include co-authoring Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth Century America with Christoph Strobel (Greenwood Press, 2006) and serving as co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (Routledge, 2019), which includes her chapter “Indigenous Peoples of the Americas to 1900.” Her ongoing book project, An Ethnic Shapeshifter in New York, explores the life of a multiracial African American man who reshaped his identity twice in post-World War II New York City as a fashion designer, dancer, and performer.