Nancy Felipe Russo has made significant contributions to psychology, especially in the areas of women's mental health and the history of women in psychology. Russo was born May 3, 1943 in Oroville, CA. She received her B.A. of Psychology from the University of California, Davis in 1963, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1970. Russo has taught the Psychology of Women since 1971. She is currently a Regents Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at Arizona State University where she has been a faculty member since 1985. She is also affiliated with the School of Justice Studies and Center for Latin American Studies at ASU. Russo's activities at ASU include conducting research, teaching undergraduate Psychology classes, conducting graduate seminars, and mentoring graduate students in a number of disciplines.

Russo is the author of many research publications and several award-winning books. Russo's research interests and experiences include gender and ethnicity, sex roles, and sex role socialization, women and work, women and education, women and public policy, women and mental health, violence against women, abortion, the contributions of women in psychology, the psychology of women, and population and environmental psychology.

In addition to her teaching and research positions at ASU, Russo is the Editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly, serves on the American Psychological Association Task Force on Women in Academe, and is a Fellow of five American Psychological Association Divisions. In 1989, Russo served as President of the American Psychological Association's Division (35) of the Psychology of Women. Russo was also the first Administrative Officer for Women's Programs of the American Psychological Association and she is a former member of the Subpanel on the Mental Health of Women of the President's Commission on Mental Health.

In 1985 Russo received the Distinguished leader Award from the American Psychological Association's Committee on Women in Psychology. In 1996 she received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association for her work on research and theory in women's mental health and her leadership in establishing the Women's Mental Health Agenda, which was the role model for the Women's Mental Health Research Agenda of the National Institutes of Mental Health. In 1998 Russo became one of 39 Regents Professors at ASU and was commended for her distinction on a national and international level for teaching, research, and other achievements in psychology.

Russo, Nancy Felipe. (1990). Overview: Forging research priorities for women's mental health. American Psychologist. 45. 368-373.

O'Connell, Agnes N., & Russo, Nancy Felipe (Eds.). (1990). Women in Psychology: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press.