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Dawn C. Carr, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers)

Director, Claude Pepper Center
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Dawn C. Carr is the Director of the Claude Pepper Center and an associate professor at Florida State University in the Department of Sociology. Carr’s research focuses on understanding the factors that bolster older adults’ ability to remain healthy and active as long as possible. Her recent work focuses on understanding the complex pathways between health and active and social engagement during later life, including resilience and the impact of key transitions and stressors associated with health and wellbeing. Before joining Florida State University in 2016, she was a researcher at the Stanford Center on Longevity, a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research (CPHAR) at the Institute on Aging at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a researcher at Scripps Gerontology Center. Carr received her Ph.D. in Social Gerontology and Master’s in Gerontological Studies at Miami University, and Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance at Arizona State University.

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