Participant Info
- First Name
- Karen
- Last Name
- Carr
- Country
- United States
- State
- OR Oregon
- carrk@pdx.edu
- Affiliation
- Portland State University
- Website URL
- https://quatr.us
- Keywords
- swimming, slavery, feminism, Eurocentrism, Tunisia, Roman pottery, Spain, Visigoths, fall of Rome, public history, diversity, Mediterranean, North Africa, ancient history, Roman Empire, Silk Road
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’ve just published Shifting Currents, a book on the social history of swimming around the world, and I am writing a book discussing the effect of Europe’s ancient silver exports on the gender of money. I am interested in the material lives of the rural and enslaved population of the Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages around the Mediterranean, especially women.
I have published on the transition from Roman to Visigothic Spain and on the pottery of Roman North Africa, especially Tunisia.
I also run an online feminist, leftist history site, Quatr.us Study Guides, with almost 2500 articles on just about everything, from the history of steel to the queens of Sudan.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @Quatr_us
- Country Focus
- Tunisia
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, Mediterranean, Spain
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Economic History, Material Culture, Public History, Rural & Agrarian History, Slavery, Sports
