Tammy M. Proctor is an American academic historian; since 2013, she has been at

Utah State University Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's ...

(as a distinguished professor since 2017), having previously been H. O. Hirt Endowed Professor of History at

Wittenberg University Wittenberg University is a private liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio. It has 1,326 full-time students representing 33 states and 9 foreign countries. Wittenberg University is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ...

(2010–13).

Biography

Proctor grew up in

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...

and completed a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

(BA) degree in history and journalism at

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

in 1990. She then completed a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

(PhD) in history at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

in 1995."Tammy Proctor"
''Utah State University''. Retrieved 7 February 2018. Proctor was a history instructor at Rutgers in 1994 and then spent the academic year 1994–95 as a visiting lecturer at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. She was an assistant professor of history at Lakeland College, Shehoygan, from 1995 to 1998, when she joined

as an assistant professor of history; she was appointed co-director of the Women's Studies Program in 1999 and became sole director in 2000. She was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and to full professor in 2008. She became H. O. Hirt Endowed Professor of History at the Wittenberg in 2010, serving until she joined

(USU) as a professor of history in 2013. In 2017, she was also appointed a distinguished professor by USU."Tammy M. Proctor: Curriculum Vitae"
Utah State University. Retrieved 7 February 2018."Four Women Named Distinguished Professors at Utah State University"
''WIAReport'', 13 December 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2018.

Research

Proctor's research has focused on the social and cultural history of the First World War (especially civilian experiences); she is also interested in transnational histories of youth and gender. She has studied Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and women spies. Her publications include: * ''World War I: A Short History'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) * (With

Sue Grayzel Susan R. Grayzel is an American academic historian. Since 2017, she has been Professor of History at Utah State University, having previously been Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, where she was also Director of the Sarah Isom ...

) ''Gender and the Great War'' (Oxford University Press, 2017). * (With

Sophie De Schaepdrijver Sophie, Baroness De Schaepdrijver (b. Kortrijk, 11 September 1961) is a Belgian historian. Education She graduated in history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) and obtained a PhD with a dissertation on ''Elites for the Capita ...

) ''An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Diary of Mary Thorp'' (Oxford University Press, 2017). * ''Civilians in a World at War, 1914–1918'' (New York University Press, 2010). * ''Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts'' (Praeger, 2009). * (With Nelson R. Block) ''Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the Scout Movement's First Century'' (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009). * ''Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War'' (New York University Press, 2003). * ''On My Honour: Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain'' (American Philosophical Society, 2002).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Proctor, Tammy M. Living people 21st-century American historians People from Kansas City, Missouri University of Missouri alumni Rutgers University alumni Wittenberg University faculty Utah State University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)