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Overview

  • Betsy Carter is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Carter joined the UNH faculty in 2015, after two years as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, and one year as a lecturer in comparative politics at the University of California Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in political science at the University of California Berkeley and her M.P.A. from the University of Washington. Carter teaches courses related to European politics, political economy, and food politics. Her research combines politics with sociology, economics and history to explore the dynamics between politics, producer organization, the construction of taste, and market prices in high-value added sectors. Her current research investigates the political construction of taste and value in the fashion, food, and music sectors, building on Carter’s past research on wine markets. Carter was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies during the spring of 2017, and she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid during the spring of 2020.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Of fields and of factories: the political construction of comparative advantage in French wine and German core manufacturingReview of Social Economy.  82:661-683. 2024
    2024 Poverty among riches: understanding the contracted economy for recorded music and its impact on market actorsJournal of Cultural Economy.  17:345-359. 2024
    2023 California margin temperatures modulate regional circulation and extreme summer precipitation in the desert SouthwestEnvironmental Research Letters.  18:104048-104048. 2023
    2022 Public Opinion on the Role of Government and Market in Latin AmericaAmérica Latina Hoy.  90:41-58. 2022
    2021 Desperately seeking happy chickens: producer dynamics and consumer politics in quality agricultural supply chainsInternational Journal of Social Economics.  48:933-946. 2021
    2019 From Myths to Markets Power, Institutions, and the Reification of Imagined HistoriesEuropean Journal of Sociology.  60:211-236. 2019
    2018 For what it's worth: the political construction of quality in French and Italian wine marketsSocio-Economic Review.  16:479-498. 2018
    Cultivating the Symbolic Capital of Singularity: The Vineyard, From Space to PlaceSpace and Culture: the journal

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2018 Sign o' the Times: Does Francis' Papacy Represent a New Era for Western Europe?.  Ed. Lyon, Alynna.  169-187. 2018
    2018 Sign o' the Times: Does Francis' Papacy Represent a New Era for Western Europe? (pg 169, 2018).  E1-E1. 2018
    2017 In vino veritas? The development of producer trust and its market effects in regulated French and Italian quality wine markets 2017

    Other Research Activities

    Teaching Activities

  • Comparative Government&Society Taught course
  • Contemporary European Politics Taught course
  • Food and Wine Politics Taught course
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course
  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course 2024
  • The Politics of Markets Taught course 2024
  • Pro-Seminar Taught course 2022
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2022
  • Contemporary European Politics Taught course 2022
  • Food and Wine Politics Taught course 2022
  • Pro-Seminar Taught course 2021
  • The Politics of Markets Taught course 2021
  • Contemporary European Politics Taught course 2021
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2021
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2020 - 2021
  • Food and Wine Politics Taught course 2020
  • The Politics of Markets Taught course 2020
  • Food and Wine Politics Taught course 2019
  • Pro-Seminar Taught course 2019
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2018 - 2019
  • Contemporary European Politics Taught course 2018
  • Rsrch Exp/Political Science Taught course 2018
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2018
  • Contemporary European Politics Taught course 2018
  • Rsrch Exp/Political Science Taught course 2018
  • The Politics of Markets Taught course 2018
  • Comparative Government&Society Taught course 2017
  • Food and Wine Politics Taught course 2017
  • Pro-Seminar Taught course 2017
  • Washington Center Internship Taught course 2017
  • Top/Varieties of Capitalism Taught course 2016
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2016
  • Comparative Government&Society Taught course 2016
  • Sem/Politics of Food & Wine Taught course 2016
  • Contemporary European Politics Taught course 2015
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2015
  • Full Name

  • Elizabeth Carter