Tammy Proctor, Ph.D.

Field: History
Areas of Focus: Food History, Gender Equity, Humanitarian Aid, War

Expertise

• scouting
• World War I
• female spies
• humanitarian aid
• World War II
• food history
• gender history
• sport history

Bio

Tammy M. Proctor is Distinguished Professor of History at Utah State University. Proctor earned her PhD in history from Rutgers University in 1995 and is a specialist in modern European and gender history with a special emphasis on the history of youth, gender, and conflict. Proctor teaches courses in sport history, both world wars, world history, and the Holocaust, and she is one of the co-founders of USU's Peace Institute.

Along with colleagues at the university, Proctor co-hosts a radio program on Utah Public Radio entitled Eating the Past, and she co-organized a video series of the same name with Dean Jennifer Duncan from the USU Library. Best known for her books, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (2003) and Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 (2010), she is also an expert in the history of international Girl Scouting as well as Boy Scout and Girl Guide history in Britain.

More recently, she has published World War I: A Short History (2017) as well as Gender and the Great War (with Susan Grayzel) and An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp (with Sophie de Schaepdriver). Her book, Saving Europe, on the history of US relief in Europe during and after the First World War is forthcoming in 2023 from Oxford University Press.

Proctor arrived at Utah State University in 2013 to accept a position as Department Head in the History Department; previously she held the H. Orth Hirt Endowed Chair at Wittenberg University in Ohio. A former Fulbright Scholar in Belgium and an avid runner, hiker, cyclist, and cook, Proctor lives in Providence, Utah.