Dr. Teal Arcadi's research and writing explores how law, fiscal politics, and infrastructure systems combine and construct unequal patterns of economic development in the United States. His policy work focuses on administrative governance, participatory democracy, and reparative community equity approaches. 

 

Arcadi's work has appeared in journals including Modern American History, Law and History Review, and Reviews in American History. He is currently working on two book manuscripts. Concrete Leviathan: The Interstate Highway System and State Building in Modern America is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. His subsequent project is titled Citizens and Experts: The Paradox of American Democracy Since the New Deal. 

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A legal and economic historian by training, Arcadi has an MA and PhD from Princeton and graduated with an AB summa cum laude from Cornell. Before moving into policy work, he held faculty positions at Rutgers-Newark/NJIT and Cornell.

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