Paul O. Carrese

Dr. Paul O. Carrese (kuh-REES) is a professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy, and author of the book The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press).

Dr. Carrese in his usual fine teaching form

Education

Paul Carrese graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a B.A. in political science in 1989, where he studied with Murray Dry and Paul Nelson, before attending Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship. At Oxford's Pembroke College, he earned two master's degrees, one in politics and philosophy in 1991 and one in theology in 1993. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Boston College in 1998.

Teaching career

From 1993 to 1995, he was a teaching assistant at Boston College, and he taught at Middlebury from 1996 to 1998, before earning his doctorate. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Carrese took a job at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs as an assistant professor of political science. In 2000 he became an associate professor, and in 2003 a full professor. He was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Government Department of Harvard University, 2000-2001.
Dr. Carrese now teaches several political science and social science courses at the Academy. He is also the co-founder of the Air Force Academy Scholars Program.

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