Nancy A. Hewitt (born 1951)[1] is a Professor Emerita at Rutgers University, winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a leading expert on gender history and feminism.
[2] After a Bachelors' degree at the State University of New York, Brockport, she obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1996 to 1997, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford.
[3] Hewitt's research focuses on American women's history, nineteenth century U.S. history, women's activism and feminism in comparative perspective.
Her work has been cited in the press including in Slate,[4] The Conversation[5] and there is an interview of her on History Matters.