Thomas updated a book
Thomas started following the work of Simon Springer, University of Victoria, Geography.
Thomas followed the research interests: Political Economy, Latin American politics, and Sociology of Sport
Faculty Member, Chelsea School
About
Thomas Carter is an anthropologist in the Chelsea School of Sport at the University of Brighton in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He was a post doctoral research fellow at the School of Anthropological Studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He has taught at the University of Wales, St. Cloud State University, and University of New Mexico, Los Alamos. He has also delivered talks at the University of California, Riverside, University of Nottingham, University of Roehampton, American University (Cairo), Masaryk University (Czech republic), and London Metropolitan University. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the US, Ecuador, and Wales with extensive fieldwork being conducted in Northern Ireland and Cuba. He is the author of two books: The Quality of Home Runs (published by Duke University Press) and In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration (published by Pluto Press). The Quality of Home Runs won the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport’s Outstanding Book Award for 2009. He continues to conduct research on the interrelationships between Cuban identity and sport as well as sport-related labor migration. He is working on a newer project on cultural politics surrounding spatial conceptualizations of the coast.
