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Carroll received his PhD in [[astronomy]] in 1993 from [[Harvard University]], where his advisor was [[George B. Field]]. His [[dissertation]] was entitled ''Cosmological Consequences of Topological and Geometric Phenomena in Field Theories''. He worked as a [[postdoctoral researcher]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) and [[Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics]] at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/cv/ |title=Sean M. Carroll CV |access-date=2017-06-27 |archive-date=June 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627015015/http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/cv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and as an assistant professor at the [[University of Chicago]] until 2006 when he was denied tenure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/03/30/how-to-get-tenure-at-a-major-research-university |title=How To Get Tenure at a Major Research University | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine |publisher=Blogs.discovermagazine.com |access-date=2012-04-14 |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414075927/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/03/30/how-to-get-tenure-at-a-major-research-university/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, teaching in both the Department of Philosophy and The Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Carroll has a B.S. in Astronomy, Astrophysics and
In 2010, Carroll was elected fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] for "contributions to a wide variety of subjects in [[cosmology]], [[Theory of Relativity|relativity]] and [[quantum field theory]], especially ideas for [[Accelerating expansion of the universe|cosmic acceleration]], as well as contributions to undergraduate, graduate and public science education".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2010&unit_id=DPF&institution=California%20Institute%20of%20Technology|title=APS Fellow Archive|access-date=October 15, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018204330/http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2010&unit_id=DPF&institution=California%20Institute%20of%20Technology|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, he was awarded the [[Andrew Gemant Award]] by the [[American Institute of Physics]] for "significant contributions to the cultural, artistic or humanistic dimension of physics".<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.aip.org/news/2014/outspoken-caltech-scientist-wins-2014-gemant-award|title="Outspoken" Caltech Scientist Wins 2014 Gemant Award|date=July 24, 2014|last1=Bardi|first1=Jason Socrates|publisher=[[American Institute of Physics]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511043736/https://www.aip.org/news/2014/outspoken-caltech-scientist-wins-2014-gemant-award|archive-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> In 2015, he was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.caltech.edu/news/sean-carroll-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship-46621|title=Sean Carroll Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship|publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]]|date=April 24, 2015|last1=Dajose|first1=Lorinda C.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190309013543/https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/sean-carroll-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship-46621|archive-date=March 9, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
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