Tammy M. Proctor
Tammy M. Proctor is an American academic historian; since 2013, she has been at Utah State University, having previously been H. O. Hirt Endowed Professor of History at Wittenberg University.
Biography
Proctor grew up in Kansas City and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and journalism at University of Missouri in 1990. She then completed a doctorate in history at Rutgers University in 1995.Proctor was a history instructor at Rutgers in 1994 and then spent the academic year 1994–95 as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. She was an assistant professor of history at Lakeland College, Shehoygan, from 1995 to 1998, when she joined Wittenberg University as an assistant professor of history; she was appointed co-director of the Women's Studies Program in 1999 and became sole director in 2000. She was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and to full professor in 2008. She became H. O. Hirt Endowed Professor of History at the Wittenberg in 2010, serving until she joined Utah State University as a professor of history in 2013. In 2017, she was also appointed a distinguished professor by USU.