Nancy L. Wicker is professor of art history at the University of Mississippi.
She was previously professor in the department of art at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
She took her MA in art history from the University of Minnesota in 1979, followed by her Ph.D. also from Minnesota in 1990, with work on interdisciplinary art history, archaeology, and Germanic philology.
In 1988 she was awarded the Aurora Borealis Prize of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.
[2] Wicker is a specialist in the function of jewellery in the Early Medieval period in Europe and gender and archaeology about which she has edited three books, including Gender and the Archaeology of Death (2001).