Rachel Michelle Gunter is a public historian and a professor of History at a community college in North Texas. She earned a Ph.D. in American history from Texas A&M University in 2017. She studies the woman suffrage movement in the United States from 1917 to 1923 focusing on how the successes and failures of the movement affected the voting rights of other groups including resident noncitizen voters, Mexican and German immigrants, servicemen, WWI veterans, Mexican Americans, and Black Americans. As part of this research she also looks into changes to the voting system including the beginning or expansion of absentee balloting in much of the United States and how many southern states altered their poll taxes during wartime so as to not disfranchise soldiers or veterans. She further researches the suffragists' and later the League of Women Voters' efforts to gain married women's independent citizenship, instead of the government deriving their citizenship status from their husbands. 

In her work teaching the U.S. history surveys, she strives to engage students in creative ways. You can see several of her class activities or assignment ideas under the pedagogy tab. 

See Dr. Gunter in a NowThis video for Women's History Month 2023 about Ruth Bryan Owen and independent citizenship.