Nancy Julia Chodorow was an American sociologist and academic. She began teaching at Wellesley College in 1973, then moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught from 1974 until 1986. She was a Sociology and Clinical Psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, until 2005 and served as Professor Emeritus until her retirement. Subsequently, she taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.