Carole Garibaldi Rogers

Carole Garibaldi Rogers is a writer, oral historian, poet and editor. Her latest book, Habits of Change: An Oral History of American Nuns, published by Oxford University Press in June 2011, is receiving excellent reviews.

"Almost always the author gets her interpretations just right. She understands and portrays the diversity and complexity of contemporary Catholicism through the all-encompassing interviews." (America, October 31, 2011)

"...shines a light on the real lives of American nuns as they reflect on the changes they have sometimes witnessed, other times endured, and often shaped through their own activism in the wider culture." (The Oral History Review, Winter/​Spring, 2012)

"As a collector of oral histories, the author is faithful to allowing sisters to use their own words in telling their stories....Her sincere interest in women religious kept her faithful to the listening, honest in the recording, and sensitive in the integration of her own narrative. On behalf of women religious I can only say thank you." (National Catholic Reporter, September 30,2011)

She has published seven books and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers, including America and The New York Times. She and her husband live in Morristown, New Jersey, where she is finishing her next book, a creative nonfiction narrative of three New York City families during the early 20th century.