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Carol E. Harrison

American historian

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Carol E. Harrison was an American historian and university teacher.

Carol Elizabeth Harrison is an American historian who has written on the history of France and the Catholic Church, including the books The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France and Romantic Catholics (2014). A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she has worked as a history professor at Auburn University, Kent State University, and the University of South Carolina.

Biography Carol Elizabeth Harrison, a native of Baton Rouge, She later studied at Louisiana State University, obtaining her BA in 1990. In 1989, she was elected Louisiana's 1990 Rhodes Scholar, as well as LSU's first woman Rhodes Scholar.

Now a Rhodes Scholar, Harrison obtained her PhD at the University of Oxford in 1993; The same year, she became an assistant professor in history at Auburn University, and in 1997 she moved to Kent State University with that same title. She served as a co-editor of the journals Proceedings of the Western Society for French History from 2004 to 2007 and French Historical Studies from 2014 to 2018.

In 2024, Harrison was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion and a Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies, both of which will fund research for A Women’s History of Vatican I, her book on the First Vatican Council.

Harrison married Tom Brown while working on Romantic Catholics. John Beall Jr, who was the first Spirit Rider at Oklahoma State University, was his first cousin once removed on her mother's side.

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Nationality
Education
Louisiana State University, Balliol College
Employers
University of South Carolina, Kent State University, Auburn University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship; Rhodes Scholarship
Also known as
Carol E Harrison, Carol Harrison

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American historian

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Carol E. Harrison was a historian and university teacher.

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Carol E. Harrison was American.

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