Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas
About
Tony E. Carey Jr. is an associate professor of political science at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. He is also an affiliated faculty member of UNT's Africana Studies program as well as the Latino/Mexican American Studies program. In addition, he is the founding co-director of UNT's Center for Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health and Society (CREEHS). He specializes in the areas of public opinion and political behavior, with primary interests in African-American politics, racial and ethnic politics, gender politics and political psychology. Carey received his BA from Vanderbilt University and his PhD from Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. He was a W. Burghardt Turner fellow at Stony Brook University (SUNY) as well as an Erskine A. Peters fellow at the University of Notre Dame.
Current Work:
Currently, Dr. Carey is working on a number of projects exploring the psychological, social, and political consequences of citizens' interactions with police forces. Overall, they demonstrate that living in contexts where there are a large number of police killings can have deleterious effects on citizens'-but particularly Black Americans'- psychological status, social orientations, and political agency and engagement. Yet, living in neighborhoods where community-oriented policing services are enforced with fidelity improve Black citizens' perceptions of police performance and trust in local government. This work is being developed into a book manuscript tentatively entitled, Lethal Forces: How Police Tactics Shape American Civic Life.
Research Area Keyword(s):
racial and ethnic politics; political behavior; public opinion; policing; political psychology
