Deborah Carr is a U.S. sociologist, academic, and author. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the inaugural director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. In 2024, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Education
Carr grew up in Cranston, RI and graduated from Cranston High School East. She earned her B.A. in sociology-based human relations at Connecticut College and received her PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997, where her dissertation focused on whether the fulfillment of occupational goals influences mental health at midlife.