Jacqueline Barbara Carr

Jacqueline Barbara Carr is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Vermont's College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in the history of Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early Republic, with expertise in social and cultural history, women’s history, and the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998

Her research explores topics such as Boston’s post-Revolutionary social dynamics, New England women’s roles in business during the Early Republic, and regional historical narratives. She has taught at California State University (Fresno and Sacramento) and worked as a freelance curator for public history exhibitions before joining UVM in 2004.

Her publications include:

• After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1780-1800 (2005)
• "Local History and the Vermont Borderlands 1790-1820" (2016)
• "Marketing Gentility: Boston's Businesswomen, 1780-1830" (2009)
• "A Change ‘as remarkable as the Revolution Itself’: Boston’s Demographics, 1780-1800" (2000)

Actively engaged in animal welfare advocacy, she contributes to local, state, and regional organizations.