David Ciepley

Short-term Researcher, the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme, SCAS.
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia

David Ciepley is a political theorist who works on the history and theory of corporations and constitutional
states—two related governmental forms that have co-developed over time.  He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago, was Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Denver, and is now a
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.  He has been a fellow
in several institutes of advanced study, including at Princeton (2015-2016), Stanford (CASBS 2019-2020),
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2020-2021) and Aarhus University (AIAS 2021-2023).  He is
currently working on a book, Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation, that explores whether cor-
porate economies are, or can be made, compatible with constitutional democracy. 


David Ciepley is in residence mid-November - mid-December 2024.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25