Nancy Marie Robertson received her Ph.D. in History from New York University in 1997. She is currently revising her dissertation, "'Deeper Even than Race'?: White Women and the Politics of Christian Sisterhood in the YWCA, 1906-1946." Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century U.S. history, black/white race relations, popular culture and racial imagery (especially in minstrel shows and "the cult of the black mammy"), white women and racial reform, and the continuing importance of religion to women's activism in the 20th century. She has taught at New York University and Hofstra University. She has also worked as a researcher and archivist and is currently consulting to the Archives of the Chase Manhattan Bank.