Heidi Ardizzone is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, with a concurrent appointment in History. She is also a faculty associate in Africana Studies and Gender Studies, and serves on the University Library Committee. She has also taught at the University of Michigan, and the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, where she won a Visiting Faculty Teaching Award.

Ardizzone received her Ph.D. in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, with a dissertation on "Red-Blooded Americans: Mulattoes and the Melting Pot, Racialist and Nationalist Discourse, 1890-1930." She received a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies at Michigan, and her B.A. from Cornell University.