He earned his Ph.D in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University in 2012. Dr. Carter has been traveling in Latin America since 1997, where he has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork on crime, statehood, and immigration in Central America with a focus on Honduras. He teaches courses on ethnographic methods, sensory ethnography, the anthropology of violence, political anthropology, borders and immigration, and the intersections of art and anthropology. Currently he is finishing a book called At the Foot of the Beast, about gang life and state violence in Central America. Previously he has traveled with students and university international programs to Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Cuba.