David Ciepley

David Ciepley is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, where he is the Principal Investigator for “After Neoliberalism: Toward a Stewardship Economy.” His work focuses on the history and theory of corporations and constitutional states—two related governmental forms that have co-developed over time. He previously taught political theory as tenured professor at the University of Denver and has held residential fellowships at Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton, Stanford, Uppsala, Budapest, Aarhus and Bologna. He is the author of “Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism” (Harvard University Press, 2001), “Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation” (American Political Science Review, 2013), and “Democracy and the Corporation—The Long View” (Annual Review of Political Science, 2023).