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Dawn C. Carr, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers)

Director, Claude Pepper Center, Professor of Sociology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Dawn C. Carr is the Director of the Claude Pepper Center and Professor of sociology at Florida State University. Carr’s research focuses on understanding the factors that bolster older adults’ ability to remain healthy and active as long as possible, and the factors that help bolster successful adjustment to major life transitions and stressors. Much of her work is dedicated to exploring the relevance, purpose, and factors related to paid work after age 50, volunteer engagement, and family caregiving. Her recent work focuses on identifying possible resources or interventions that reduce negative health consequences associated with exposure to stressful events and how these effects vary by social group. Before joining Florida State University in 2016, she was a researcher at the Stanford Center on Longevity, a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research (CPHAR) at the Institute on Aging at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a researcher at Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University. Carr received her Ph.D. in Social Gerontology and Master’s in Gerontological Studies at Miami University, and Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance at Arizona State University.

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