Carole Shammas researches and teaches the socio-economic history of early modern Britain and North America prior to the mid-nineteenth century.  She has written on wealth distribution, inheritance, and standards of living. Currently she is studying American housing and spatial organization and completing a project on the decline of household government in the United States. A full listing of  publications appears in her CV. Her course offerings include History 350 Living Standards in the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, History 475 The History of Colonial North America, History 432 Eighteenth Century Britain, and History 570 Historical Scholarship of  pre-1860 North America.