Nancy Bermeo is an American political scientist, and senior research fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She previously held the position of Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics at Oxford. Bermeo won the Stanley Kelley Teaching Prize at Princeton University in 1998 and the Oxford University Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. Bermeo has a PhD from Yale University. She has been Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, since 2007. Bermeo is of Ecuadorian, Irish, and Danish heritage.