Tony Carey won an American Political Science Association mentor award

Tony E. Carey Jr., associate professor and director of graduate admissions and placement in Pitt’s Department of Political Science, was named a winner of the American Political Science Association’s Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award.

The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award is presented annually by the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession to recognize the exemplary mentoring of Latino students and junior faculty each year. The award is named in honor of Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, the first Latina to earn a PhD in political science.

Carey won the Mentoring of Latino/a Junior Faculty award. Before joining Pitt, he was an associate professor of political science at the University of North Texas, where he was the co-founded the Center for Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health and Society.

Carey specializes 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. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly and Political Behavior, among others. Currently, Carey serves as the co-lead editor of Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Photography by Johnathan Wright