Carrese graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1989, where he studied with Murray Dry and Paul Nelson, before attending Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship. At Oxford"s Pembroke College, he earned two master"s degrees, one in politics and philosophy in 1991 and one in theology in 1993. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Boston College in 1998.
He has held fellowships at Harvard University. The University of Delhi (as a Fulbright fellow). And the James Madison Program, Politics Department, Princeton University.
From 1993 to 1995, Carrese was a teaching assistant at Boston College, and he taught at Middlebury from 1996 to 1998.
After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy, Carrese took a job at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs as an assistant professor of political science. In 2000 he became an associate professor, and in 2003 a full professor
He was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Government Department of Harvard University, 2000-2001. Carrese teaches several political science and social science courses at the Academy.
His most recent book is Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
