Christopher Carter is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is also a research associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the historical foundations of Indigenous groups' demands for autonomy in the Americas. The research for his book project won the 2020 APSA Best Fieldwork Award and the 2021 Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy. His work has been published or is forthcoming in American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Party Politics, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.