Carol Hurd Green

Carol Hurd Green (January 1935 – October 23, 2025) was an American scholar, author, and editor, including of women's biography collections. Green was the director of the Donovan Urban Teaching Scholars Program and faculty member in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development.

Early life and education Green was born in 1935 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended Regis College for her BA. She completed an MA at Georgetown University in 1960 and her PhD in American Studies at George Washington University in 1971. She continued as a member of the faculty after retiring from her role as associate dean.

Green has co-edited Notable American Women: The Modern Period, a collection of modern biographies that continues the collection in Notable American Women, 1607–1950, and the biographical collection American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. She is also the co-author of American Women in the 1960s: Changing the Future.

Green died on October 23, 2025, at the age of 90.

Notable American Women: The Modern Period Green and Barbara Sicherman co-edited Notable American Women: The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary, a collection of biographies of women who died between 1951 and 1975, that was published in 1980 by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press and follows Notable American Women, 1607–1950, also published by The Belknap Press. Green's contribution as an author includes the entry for Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg.

American Women in the 1960s: Changing the Future Green and Blanche Linden-Ward co-authored American Women in the 1960s: Changing the Future, which was published by MacMillan in 1993. In a review for The American Historical Review, Jane Sherron De Hart writes that Green and Linden-Ward have "mixed success" in their attempt to address various challenges presented by the premise of the volume, including in how "causation and implications of major developments seldom confine themselves to neat ten-year intervals", and "the very term "sixties" constitutes a cultural and political litmus test that almost invariably colors analysis".

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