Carey Roberts earned a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina (May 1999) and wrote his Ph.D. Dissertation, “Men of Much Faith: Progress and Declension in Jeffersonian Thought, 1787-1800,” under the direction of Professor Clyde N. Wilson.
He earned a M.A at the University of South Carolina (1995), a Diploma in International Relations from the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. (1991) and the B.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi (1993).
Dr. Robert’s most recent scholarly publication is “The Presidency of Andrew Johnson” a chapter co-written by Herbert Scott Trask in John Denson’s The American Presidency (Transaction Publishers, 2001).
Dr. Roberts maintains an active schedule of professional presentations including
“The Dilemma of Jeffersonian Constitutionalism: Strict Construction of a Subverted Text” delivered at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (April 5-6, 1997);
“The British Image in the Jeffersonian Mind,” delivered at the Society of Early Americanists ( March 1999); “Educating Republican Majorities: Thomas Jefferson, John Taylor, and the Resolutions of 1798” delivered at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 26, 2000); “An Austrian Perspective on Hamiltonian Finance: The Business Cycles of the Early 1790s” delivered at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (March 30-April 1, 2001); “Hamilton and the Economic Problems of the 1790s,” at The Hamilton Conference: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton, NY, (April 4-6, 2001).
Dr. Roberts has been active in organizing and speaking at scholarly panels and seminars on such topics as “Political Economy in Early America”; “Liberty and Currency in Early American History”; “Liberty and the Federal Debt.”; “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798”; “Progress, Nationalism, and the Use of History”; “Liberty and the Power of Veto;” “Education in the Early Republic”; “Political Economy in the Early Republic”; “Liberty and the American Founding”; “Liberty and the Writings of Francis Graham Wilson,” and “Liberty and the American Founding.”
Dr. Roberts was awarded the Claude Lambe Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies (1993-1994), an Earhart Foundation Fellowship (1998-1999), and was a Perkins Post-doctorate Fellow (1999-2000).
Currently he is assistant professor of history at Arkansas Tech Univeristy, Russellville, Arkansas. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He and his wife spend most of their time raising two sons and gardening.
Carey Roberts earned a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina (May 1999) and wrote his Ph.D. Dissertation, “Men of Much Faith: Progress and Declension in Jeffersonian Thought, 1787-1800,” under the direction of Professor Clyde N. Wilson.
He earned a M.A at the University of South Carolina (1995), a Diploma in International Relations from the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. (1991) and the B.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi (1993).