Federica Carugati

Federica Carugati is Senior Lecturer in History and Political Economy at King's College London. She was previously Program Director at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and, before that, 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.