Pepper Dagenhart Culpepper (born October 1, 1968) is an American political scientist. Culpepper obtained a bachelor of arts in political science at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1990. He received a

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, with which he pursued a Master of Letters in political science at

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, graduating in 1992. Culpepper returned to the United States, enrolling at

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, where he completed a master of arts and doctorate both in political science. He began teaching at Harvard in 1998 as an assistant professor of public policy, one year before obtaining his Ph.D. Culpepper became an associate professor in 2003. He left Harvard in 2009, for a position at the

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. Culpepper moved to the

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in 2016, as a professorial fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and professor of politics and public policy. In 2018, Culpepper became a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and was appointed the Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy within the

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. Culpepper's book ''Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was awarded the 2012

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