Jon Carver
November 2, 2026
Co-wrote a chapter in "Texture(s) in Creativity and Psychoanalysis: Aesthetics of Experience" as part of Routledge’s Art and Psychoanalysis book series. "The Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis" book series seeks to highlight original, cutting-edge studies of the relationship between psychoanalysis and the world of art and the psychology of artists, with subject matter including the psychobiography of artists, the creative process, the psychology of aesthetic experience, as well as the aesthetic, creative, and artistic aspects of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The chapter is co-written by Dr. Lydia Khuri from Champaign Urbana, a Lebanese-American Psychoanalyst and painter.

Achievements
Co-wrote a chapter in "Texture(s) in Creativity and Psychoanalysis: Aesthetics of Experience" as part of Routledge’s Art and Psychoanalysis book series. "The Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis" book series seeks to highlight original, cutting-edge studies of the relationship between psychoanalysis and the world of art and the psychology of artists, with subject matter including the psychobiography of artists, the creative process, the psychology of aesthetic experience, as well as the aesthetic, creative, and artistic aspects of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The chapter is co-written by Dr. Lydia Khuri from Champaign Urbana, a Lebanese-American Psychoanalyst and painter.
Conference Presentation "Studying Synechia: Elea, Ostrom and Indigenous Governance" as part of the 'Political Economy and the Arts ' programming at the Markets and Society Conference 2026 sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, October 24, 2026.
Awarded: Mercatus Center Fellowship through George Mason University. Carver will participate in the Adam Smith Colloquia over the course of the 2026-27 school year.
Awarded the Elinor Ostrom Fellowship through the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, supporting his research in political economy and governance.
