Julian Culp is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at The American University of Paris. Previously, he was a lecturer in philosophy and political theory at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, where he received his Habilitation and PhD in philosophy. Culp was visiting professor at the University of Graz, held postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Toronto and the University of Louvain, and spent research stays at Duke and Princeton universities.

Culp is the author of Global Justice and Development (Palgrave, 2014) and Democratic Education in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2019), as well as of numerous articles in journals such as Philosophy Compass, Theory and Research in Education, Third World Quarterly, Social Philosophy & Policy, and Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (CUP, 2023), the journal Analyse & Kritik – Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory (De Gruyter) and the book series Philosophy of Education – Debates and Constellations (Brill and Mentis).