Thomas M. Carsey

Thomas M. Carsey, former President of the Southern Political Science Association, is the Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is also the Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. He previously taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Florida State University. His research and teaching span a wide range of topics in American Politics, including representation, campaigns and elections, political parties, state politics, and public opinion. He also teaches and does work in the area of quantitative and computational research methods. He has published three books, 29 referred journal articles, and numerous other chapters and articles. He has been the Principle Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on research grants totaling more than $1.5 million, and has received several awards for both his teaching and his research. He currently serves as an adviser to UNC’s National Consortium for Data Science and as a member of the American Political Science Association’s advisory committee on Data Access and Research Transparency. Carsey also just completed a 4-year term as Editor of the academic journal State Politics and Policy Quarterly.  He servers or has served on more than 50 Ph.D. dissertation committees during his career, chairing 18 of them.