Nancy Unger | Source | Historian, Professor at Santa Clara University

Nancy C. Unger is a Professor and former Chair of History at Santa Clara University, specializing in women’s history, LGBTQ history, and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is vice-president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and is the author of two award-winning biographies about Progressive Era leadership: Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (The University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer (Routledge, 2016). Her book Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2012) was a California Book Award finalist. Unger co-edited A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and served as book review editor for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Her op-eds applying lessons of the past to present-day problems have appeared on TIME.com, CNN.com, and in newspapers nationwide, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, and the San Jose Mercury News. She has been featured multiple times on C-SPAN TV, and consulted with Bill Moyers for PBS, and her radio appearances include National Public Radio, KQED, Air America, Wisconsin Public Radio, and Talking History.