Nancy Lyman Roelker (June 15, 1915 - November 27, 1993) was an American historian and educator whose focus was 16th-century French history.
[1] Her devotion to mentoring graduate students was recognized with the American Historical Association creating the Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award.
William Greene Roelker's family line traces all the way back to the earliest settlers in Rhode Island, and includes numbers of prominent community leaders and governors.
When he died suddenly in 1953 he was Director of the Rhode Island Historical Society where he greatly expanded its holdings.
Though Nancy Roelker did not formally teach at Rhode Island’s Brown University, in her retirement she pursued opportunities to mentor graduate students there.