Dr. Thomas Carter earned his PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He was a post- doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Anthropological Studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He has taught at the University of Wales, St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), and University of New Mexico, Los Alamos. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the US, Ecuador, and Wales with extensive research being conducted in Northern Ireland and Cuba. He is the author of two books: “The Quality of Home Runs” (published by Duke University Press) and “In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration” (published by Pluto Press).He continues to conduct research on Cuban sport as well as sport-related labor migration. He is working on a newer project on the cultural politics surrounding spatial conceptualizations of the coast. He welcomes students with projects related to Latin America, transnationalism, sport, and the coast as cultural space.