Nancy Isenberg

Nancy G. Isenberg (born 1958) is an American historian, and T. Harry Williams Professor of history at Louisiana State University.

Life
She graduated from Rutgers University, and University of Wisconsin. In 2017, she wrote the book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.

Awards

 * 1999, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) book prize for Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
 * 2003, First Union International Fellowship, International Center for Jefferson Studies
 * 2003-2004 and 2007–2008, Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
 * 2008, Award for best non-fiction book for Fallen Founder, Oklahoma Center for the Book
 * 2008, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography
 * 2016, shared with Lyra Monteiro, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, Before Columbus Foundation
 * 2016, #4 on Politico Magazine's Annual List of the “50 Most important Thinkers”
 * 2017, LSU Distinguished Research Master Award
 * 2017, Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
 * 2017, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for White Trash