Carole Haber, Tulane University

Carole Haber

Professor of History

chaber@tulane.edu

Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1979

Biography

Carole Haber is a specialist in American medical and social history, with particular interests in aging and death in the nineteenth century. She has written several books including Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America’s PastOld Age and the Search for Security; and Key Words in Sociocultural Gerontology. She has also served as a consultant on aging for NBC, BBC, NPR, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging.