Carol Gilligan

Carol Gilligan, whose landmark classic In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of girls, women, and human psychology, is a University Professor at New York University. She is the author of the novel Kyra and a number of books on psychology, women’s and girls’ development, and listening to how people speak about their lives. She did her undergraduate work in English literature at Swarthmore and her graduate work in psychology at Harvard, where she was the first Graham professor of Gender Studies and taught for over 30 years. In 1996 Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential Americans and in 2025 she received the Kyoto Prize in arts and philosophy. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts with her husband and the very old dog of their youngest son.