Carl Borick is the Director of The Charleston Museum. Carl is a CPA, with a Bachelor’s in Accounting from the University of Delaware (1988) and a Master’s in History from the University of Alabama (1993). He has been with the Museum since 1996 and became Director in 2013. Under his leadership, the Museum has made significant improvements to its permanent exhibition, facilities, and programs.

Carl is the author of three books on the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, all published by the University of South Carolina Press. A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780 was released in 2003 and Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782 in 2012. A Gallant Defense won the 2003 George C. Rogers, Jr. Award from the South Carolina Historical Society for the year’s best book in South Carolina history. His most recent book, Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence, was just published in February of this year. He is also the primary author of The Charleston Museum: America’s First Museum, published in 2022 by USC Press, in honor of the Museum’s 250th anniversary in 2023.

Carl recently received the Bobby Gilmer Moss History Award from the South Carolina Society of the National Daughters of the American Revolution for his efforts as an educator, historian and author.

Carl and his wife Susan live on James Island and are the proud parents of two college-age sons, Caleb and Nathanael.