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About Carole Shammas
- Carole Shammas (born October 21, 1943) is an American historian, academic and author.
- She holds the John R.
- Hubbard Chair Emeritus in history at the University of Southern California and previously served as the department chair from 2000–03.
- Her work has explored socioeconomic history of North America, Great Britain and the Atlantic World prior to the mid-nineteenth century.
- She has written books and articles on the subjects of inheritance, consumption, and household government.
- Her daughter is the musician Julia Holter. Shammas got her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California and her Ph.D.
- from Johns Hopkins University.
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