During the 2016-2017 academic year Dr. Carter is the William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He is also the chair of the Valparaiso Human Relations Council and the co-editor (with Mark Noll) of William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company’s Library of Religious Biography series.He is author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Oxford, 2015), as well as the co-editor of both The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class (Univ of Illinois Press, 2016) and Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism (Eerdmans, 2017).