Brett Logan Carter

Graduate Student, Department of Government

Brett Carter is a graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He received an M.A. in political economy from the University of Chicago and B.A.s in political science and French from the Virginia Military Institute. Outside of the American academy, he was a Fulbright scholar in Senegal, has taught at the University of Malawi, worked for a humanitarian NGO in northern Ethiopia, and consulted for USAID in Washington, Mali, and Congo (Kinshasa). His primary research interests concern the application of formal and quantitative methods to economic growth, demographic change, and international conflict.