Nancy K. Bristow is a professor of history at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, where she is also the Chair of the History Department, a founding member of the African American Studies Program, and a member of the Leadership Team of the Race and Pedagogy Institute. She is the author of three books, Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great War (NYU Press, 2006), American Pandemic: Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College. An award-winning teacher, she has also provided historical commentary through outlets ranging from The Guardian, The Nation, and TIME Magazine to NPR and PBS.

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