Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (born July 14, 1954) is an American historian of Chinese architecture.

She received a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and an Alice Davis Hitchcock Award in 2021 for her book China: An Architectural History.

Seeking to explore subjects outside of painting, the typical focus of Chinese art programs in the United States, she studied the temple of Yongle Gong for her master's thesis.

She received her PhD in 1981, with her doctoral thesis Imperial Architecture Under Mongolian Patronage focusing on the Yuan dynasty city of Khanbaliq.

[2][3][4] Leaving Bryn Mawr, Steinhardt became an assistant professor of East Asian art in 1983, replacing Schuyler Cammann upon his retirement.