Rachel Michelle Gunter is a public historian and author whose research focuses on the woman suffrage movement and its effects on the voting rights of other groups, including immigrants, servicemen, World War I veterans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans. She earned a PhD in History from Texas A&M University. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and she also contributed a chapter for the book Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson. She also served as a consultant and cowriter for Citizens at Last, a documentary film about the history of the Texas suffrage movement.