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)

"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)

"....[a]compelling collection of interviews[that]gives an intimate glimpse into the nuns' lives and their service on the front lines of social and religious change...." (Foreword, September/​October 2011)



She has published seven books and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers, including America and The New York Times. Among her earlier books:

Fasting: Exploring a Great Spiritual Practice, published by Sorin Books, began as an article in America. The book was chosen as a September 2004 selection of the Spiritual Book Associates.

Poverty, Chastity and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns,, was published in 1996 by Simon&Schuster Macmillan in the Twayne Oral History Series. It was selected as an Editor's Choice of the Catholic Digest Book Club.


She and her husband live in Morristown, New Jersey, where she is close to finishing her next book, a creative nonfiction narrative of three New York City families during the early 20th century.