Nancy K. Berlage

Associate Professor
Office: TMH-217
Email: nkb11@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.4529

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background
PhD - Johns Hopkins University
MA - Johns Hopkins University
BA - The University of Chicago

Current Research Topics
Public History; Rural Women & Gender; Memory; Agricultural History; Institutional History

Biography
Dr. Nancy K. Berlage is Associate Professor of History with a focus on Twentieth-Century American History, Memory Studies, Agricultural History, “the State,” Rural Women and Gender, and Public History. Berlage is a fellow of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the History of Business Enterprise. She was previously Chief Editor and Senior Historian for the Office of the Secretary of Defense; principal of The Berlage Company, contracted with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, and Senior Historian with History Associates Incorporated.

Berlage’s next book Modernity, Memory and the Uses of the Past in Rural America is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. Other publications include the award-winning Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935, “The Establishment of an Applied Social Science: Home Economists, Science and Reform at Cornell University, 1870–1930” in Gender and American Social Science, “Agricultural Organization in the Twentieth Century: Progressives, Radicals, and Social Activists,” in A Companion to American Agricultural History; as co-author, History of the National Eye Institute, 1970-2000, Pentagon 9-11, and “Identity and Institutions in Political History: A Cross-Disciplinary Discussion,” in Politics, Groups and Identities; and as co-editor, The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, vols. 18-21.

Recent awards include the Golden Apple Award as the top scholar among all professor levels in the College of Liberal Arts; Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Society; and College of Liberal Arts Achievement Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Service.

Berlage is the recipient of fellowship and grants, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Cornell University, National Park Service, National Endowment for the Arts, Economic History Association, Rockefeller Archives, Ford Foundation/Women’s Studies, Johns Hopkins, and Spencer Foundation/Dr. Dorothy Ross/Johns Hopkins.

Awards include: Golden Apple Award as top scholar (2018), and Achievement Awards for Excellence in Teaching (2017) and Excellence in Service (2020), all from the College of Liberal Arts; Favorite Professor - Alpha Chi National Honor Society (2017 & 2019); Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award - Agricultural Society; Butler Prize - Johns Hopkins University; and the Outstanding Service Award - Department of Defense. She is also the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council on Public History, the Economic History Association, and others.