Dr. Tony E. Carey Jr. is a political scientist specializing 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.  Dr. Carey’s work has been published in several journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, and Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Carey received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and his Ph.D. 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.

Currently, Dr. Carey is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA.  He teaches undergraduate courses on American government, African-American politics and racial and ethnic politics as well as graduate seminars on American politics and American mass political behavior. Dr. Carey is also co-lead editor (with Regina Branton UNC-Charlotte) of Politics, Groups, and Identities. Before coming to Pitt, he was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Texas.  While at UNT, Carey was the co-founder and co-director for the Center of Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health and Society (CREEHS), which examines how social determinants of health shape racial health disparities in the state of Texas and nationwide.