Alice Nash

Alice Nash is an Associate Professor of History. Her research interests range from the impact of colonization on family and gender relations in Wabanaki history before 1800 to current issues such as the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She has published numerous articles on northeastern Native American history including three in French translation in the Quebec journal Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (RAQ). In 2003–2004, she was awarded the first Fulbright-Université de Montréal Distinguished Chair. During this year, she served on the RAQ editorial board and taught a course on the Deerfield Raid of 1704, connecting New England and New France. With Christoph Strobel, she co-authored Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth Century America (Greenwood, 2006). She is a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on the History and Society of the Americas, which includes her essay on “Indigenous Peoples of the Americas to 1900.” She is the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019) to serve as director or codirector of Teaching Native American Histories, a Summer Institute for K–12 teachers drawn from a national pool of applicants. She serves as Chair of the Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Advisory Board at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.