Genevieve Carlton, Ph.D.

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Contributors/Genevieve Carlton, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D. History, Northwestern University

An award-winning historian and writer, Genevieve Carlton, Ph.D., has published multiple scholarly articles and a book with the University of Chicago Press. She currently works as a writer and consultant. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure as a history professor at the University of Louisville.

Subject areas

History, writing

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