Carroll, Tamar

Tamar Carroll is a historian and professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research interests include modern U.S. history, women’s and gender history, public history, and digital humanities. She is the author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism and Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election. She grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and studied history and journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her PhD in history at the University of Michigan and was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in U.S. History at Cornell University before joining the faculty at RIT.