Julian Culp is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory in the Department of History and Politics 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. Culp was Humboldt fellow at FU Berlin, visiting professor at the University of Graz, held postdoctoral fellowships from the universities of Toronto and 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 Educational Theory, Political Theory, Social Philosophy & Policy, The Review of Politics, 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).