Perry Carter
PhD, Ohio State University, 1998
Social geography, urban geography, racial identity, geographic methods
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Dr. Carter is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University in the Department of Geosciences. He is a member of the National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences Senior Advisory Panel and the International Editorial Advisory Board of Tourism Geographies. Dr. Carter is a Race, Ethnicity, and Social Equity in Tourism (RESET) Research Fellow – a multi-university and interdisciplinary research and outreach initiative that seeks to identify, study, and challenge patterns of social inequity in the tourism industry. In 2021, Dr. Carter gave an Academy of Medicine lecture titled “Art Works: Presencing the Absent through Bearing Witness to the Annihilated at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice”