Professor Dr. Federica Carugati

Biography

Federica Carugati is a Senior Lecturer in History at King's College London. Joining in 2020, she serves as the program director for the undergraduate major in history with a focus on political economy. Her previous appointments include associate director at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2018 to 2020 and a role at the Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, from 2015 to 2018. Carugati holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from the University of Bologna and a joint PhD/MA in Classics and Political Science from Stanford University. She is the author of significant works including 'Moral Political Economy: Present, Past Future' and 'Creating Constitution: Law, Democracy Growth Ancient Athens.' Her research interests span the development of political, legal, and economic institutions in pre-modern contexts and the implications they hold for modern institution-building. She is involved in multiple research groups at King's College, contributing to the fields of Historical Political Economy and Comparative Politics.

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