Nancy Campbell is an emerging scholar who connects the fields of drug policy history, the political theory of policy-making and political discourse on licit and illicit drugs, and women's studies. Her work focuses on the impact of drug policy on different communities of women and girls since World War II. She is finishing her newest book, entitled Governing Mentalities: Women, Illicit Drug Policy, and the Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, which is an assessment of the effect of current drug policy upon women's struggle for political equality. She currently teaches public policy and political theory in the Department of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. from the History Consciousness Program, University of California at Santa Cruz (1995). Her dissertation was titled Cold War Compulsions: U.S. Drug Science, Policy, and Culture.

(1998). Recovering public policy: Beyond self-interest to a situated feminist ethics. In B. Ami Bar-On & A, Ferguson (Eds.) Daring to be Good. New York: Routledge.(1996). Constructing the `enemy within': Illicit drug use in Cold War political culture. Invited paper delivered at the Conference on Historical Perspectives on the Use and Abuse of Illicit Drugs in the United States, October 24-25, 1996 at the Yale School of Medicine sponsored by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse.(1996). Beyond recovery: Drug, pregnancy, and feminist policy studies. Panel presentation on "Drug Policy: Sex, Race, and Class" delivered at the Tenth International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, November 7-10, 1996 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Drug Policy Foundation.