Federica Carugati

Program Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Homepage : https://people.stanford.edu/carugati

Federica Carugati is Program Director at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, Federicawas Associate Director of the Ostrom Workshop and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. She holds a PhD in Classics and MA in Political Science from Stanford. Federica’s work focuses on two interrelated topics: (1) the development of political, legal, and economic institutions in pre-modern, citizen-centered governments; and (2) the lessons that the emergence, configuration, and breakdown of such institutions hold for rethinking institution building in today’s developing world.