IHUM Fellow: Bill Carter

Bill Carter studied history and anthropology at Oberlin College. After graduating, he worked for several years as a curatorial assistant and field archeologist in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In graduate school at Princeton University, he concentrated on early America, Native American history, colonial Latin America, and the history of the American West. He examined the relationships between bodies, objects, consumer goods and the distinctively Iroquoian ideal of beauty in his dissertation, "Chains of Consumption: The Iroquois and Consumer Goods, 1550-1800." He is currently revising one of his chapters for publication, "The Nakedness of the Indians," in which he explores how European empires imagined Native American bodies and their very different materialities, or ways of being in the material world, and how Native American experiences of and relationships to their bodies were altered by the consumption of goods manufactured in Europe.

Before coming to Stanford, Bill taught history and anthropology at the College of New Jersey, the University of Virginia, and Princeton University. Bill is a certified power yoga teacher and taught several classes a week in Philadelphia. He is having a wonderful time exploring the vegan paradise of San Francisco.