Carol Elizabeth Harrison is an American historian who has written on the history of France and the Catholic Church, including the books The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France (1999) and Romantic Catholics (2014).
[3] She attended Baton Rouge Magnet High School, where she was a state French club quiz bee champion.
[7][2] Now a Rhodes Scholar, Harrison obtained her PhD at the University of Oxford in 1993;[6] her doctoral dissertation was titled The esprit d'association and the French bourgeoisie: voluntary societies in eastern France, 1830-1870.
[6] In 2014, she wrote a New York Times Opinionator article on the Édouard René de Laboulaye novel Paris in America.
[3] John Beall Jr, who was the first Spirit Rider at Oklahoma State University, was his first cousin once removed on her mother's side.