Carol Saunders Wood (born February 9, 1945, in Pennington Gap, Virginia)[1] is a retired American mathematician, the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics, Emerita, at Wesleyan University.

[2] Her research concerns mathematical logic and model-theoretic algebra,[3] and in particular the theory of differentially closed fields.

[3] She earned her doctorate in 1971 from Yale University with a dissertation on forcing supervised by Abraham Robinson.

[1] She was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large from 1987 to 1989.

[9] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.