Project Title: Micro-Nations: Constructing Boundaries of Inclusion in Latin America
Christopher Carter, University of Virginia
Christopher Carter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and the John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute. His primary research agenda focuses on the historical evolution of Indigenous-state relations in Latin America, spanning from independence to the present. In his forthcoming book, The Long Shadow of Extraction: The Origins of Indigenous Autonomy Demands (Princeton University Press), he explores how historical experiences of land and labor loss influenced Indigenous groups’ demands for autonomy. The research for this project earned the 2020 APSA Best Fieldwork Award and the 2021 Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy. His work has also received the Leon Weaver Best Paper Award from APSA’s Representation and Electoral Systems Section and an honorable mention for the Sage Best Paper Prize from APSA’s Comparative Politics Section. All of his research employs a multi-method approach, utilizing experimental and natural experimental data alongside extensive interviewing and archival research.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics Recipients