PROFILE

JOHN CAREY

GOVERNMENT

Teaching: The John Went- worth Professor in Social Science since 2007, Carey co-directs the government honors program and teaches "Comparative Politics," "Elections and Reform," "Latin American Politics" and "Democracy and Accountability in Latin America."

Research Interests: Optimizing electoral rules and constitutional design procedures, which are topical issues in the Middle East and Latin America. He has focused on how an electoral system determines representatation, whether the way a constitution is written affects how much support it gets, and if office holders who abuse their power can nonetheless serve their constituents.

Claim to Fame: Received international media attention last August along with son Sam's youth baseball team, which obtained rare U.S. government approval to travel to Cuba for 13 days to play in "friendship games" with Cuban teams. "Kids on both sides sensed this was something special," he says.

C.V.: B.A. in social studies from Harvard (1986); Ph.D. in political science from University of California San Diego (1993).

Off-campus: Lives in Hanover with wife and fellow government professor Lisa Baldez and two sons, ages 13 and 15. "I love having the outdoors on my doorstep and still being reasonably close to Boston, New York City and Montreal," he says.