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Carter Koppelman holds a B.A. in International Relations and Latin American Studies from Tufts University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ, and a faculty affiliate of the Centers for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights (PJHR). He was also the 2022 faculty fellow of FAU’s Study of the Americas Initiative. 

As a scholar, Dr. Koppelman is broadly interested in how individuals and movements pursue dignity in unequal societies, and how opportunities to do so are structured by state projects and economic forces. Focusing on the working-class peripheries of Latin American cities, his research has examined the effects of international NGO projects, municipal community develop programs, social housing policies, and more recently financial inclusion initiatives. He uses political ethnography to study the impacts of different kinds of interventions on city-dwellers’ everyday lives, sense of citizenship, and engagements with state agencies. Dr. Koppelman has published research in Qualitative Sociology, Social Politics, Latin American Perspectives, and City & Community, and recently contributed a chapter on São Paulo’s contributions to global urban sociology for a new Oxford Handbook of Urban Sociology.  

Dr. Koppelman has collaborated with colleagues in the College of Arts & Letters to teach interdisciplinary Global Studies courses on topics of global migration, citizenship, race, and urbanism. He also teaches sociology courses on cities, sociological theory, globalization, development, and social change. In all his courses he seeks to enable students to make sense of the global and historical forces that affect their lives and communities and empower them to engage critically with global and local social issues.