Terrell Carver
American political theorist
Terrell Foster Carver (born 4 September 1946) is a political theorist and academic.
Career
Carver was born in Boise, Idaho, in 1946, and grew up there, graduating from Boise High School in 1964. After receiving his B.A. summa cum laude in Government and History from Columbia University in 1968, Carver was awarded Columbia's Kellett Fellowship for graduate study in England.
After finishing his BPhil (1970) and DPhil (1975) at Balliol College of Oxford University, he pursued an academic career, becoming a lecturer at the University of Liverpool in 1974. In 1980, Carver moved to the University of Bristol where in 1995 he was appointed Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics (later School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies). Carver became a naturalised British citizen in 2013.
At Bristol, Carver organised and taught various undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including Contemporary Feminist Thought, Postmodern Political Theory, and Gender, Masculinities and International Relations, as well as methodological seminars in Discourse and Visual Analysis and supervisions and examinations for numerous PhD students. He served as Head of the Politics Department (1999–2004) and administratively in the university's Study Abroad Programme for exchanges and student recruitment (1987–2007).
Alongside his teaching, Carver has contributed substantially to various fields of research, including Marx, Engels and Marxism; philosophy of social science, post-structuralism and feminist theory; and sex, gender and sexuality studies, notably men's and masculinity studies; contributing numerous articles to standard works of reference. His study Men in Political Theory (2004) remains unique.
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