Nancy S. Steinhardt | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 14, 1954 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Imperial Architecture Under Mongolian Patronage (1981) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chinese architectural historian |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (born July 14, 1954) is an American historian of Chinese architecture. Introduced to Chinese architecture by Nelson Ikon Wu, she studied at Harvard University, becoming a Harvard Fellow and receiving her PhD in 1981. She began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983, and became a curator of the Penn Museum in 1998. She received a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and an Alice Davis Hitchcock Award in 2021 for her book China: An Architectural History.