Dr. Teal Arcadi is a Senior Researcher at the New Institute of Political Economy. His research and writing explore how legal frameworks, infrastructure systems, and fiscal politics combine and construct unequal patterns of economic development in the United States. His policy work focuses on administrative governance 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. The Infrastructural State: The Interstate Highway System and State Building in Modern America is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. His subsequent project is titled Walled In: Prisons, Military Bases, and the Infrastructure of American State Force. 

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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 the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Cornell.

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