Tammy Proctor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

History

Tammy M. Proctor is Distinguished Professor of History and Department Head. Proctor is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, and a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she received bachelor’s degrees in journalism and history. Proctor earned a PhD in modern European and women’s history at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey in 1995. Proctor’s teaching and research interests lie in the history of youth, gender, war, and the twentieth century world. She has authored or edited eight books, including Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (2003) and Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (2009). Her most recent publications are Gender and the Great War, co-edited with Susan Grayzel (2017), World War I: A Short History(2017), and An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp (2017), with Sophie de Schaepdrijver. Proctor has received several grants to support her research, including a Fulbright Scholar Award in Belgium, and she frequently lectures in the United States and in Europe. Her new project examines American humanitarian aid in Europe between 1914 and 1924.