Nancy MacLean
| Nancy MacLean | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nancy MacLean August 22, 1959 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Historian |
| Institutions | Duke University, Northwestern University |
| Alma mater |
University of Wisconsin-Madison Brown University |
| Doctoral advisor | Linda Gordon |
| Known for | U.S. history |
Nancy K. MacLean (born August 22, 1959) is an American historian. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and the author of numerous books and articles on various aspects of twentieth-century United States history. She is also the past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA).
MacLean received a B.A. and M.A. in history from Brown University in 1981, where she graduated magna cum laude, with honors in history in a combined four-year B.A./M.A program. In 1989, she received a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in history, where she studied under Linda Gordon. Her thesis, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: Gender, Race, and Class in the Making of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s in Georgia, became her first book.
From 1989 to 2010 she taught at Northwestern University, where she served as the chair of the Department of History and Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities. In 2010 she relocated to Duke University.
MacLean was co-chair of Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina (SPNC) in 2012. In 2013 Maclean participated on SPNC panels and forums held in opposition to the laws enacted by the Republican majority of the North Carolina General Assembly. While at Northwestern University, Maclean participated and spoke in support of the Living Wage Campaign in 2010. In 2009 MacLean issued an open “letter of concern about SEIU’s interference with UNITE HERE,” joined by other labor academics. Javier Morillo of SEIU responded that Maclean and her fellow signatories had “signed onto a set of arguments without doing some research and fact-checking you require, when producing work in your own fields.” Morillo and SEIU's then-president, Andy Stern publicly apologized to MacLean and others for their aspersions.
MacLean's research and historical writing focus on race, gender, labor history and social movements in 20th century U.S. history, with particular attention to the U.S. South.
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