Pepper Dagenhart Culpepper (born October 1, 1968) is an American political scientist.
Culpepper obtained a bachelor of arts in political science at Duke University in 1990.
He received a Marshall Scholarship, with which he pursued a Master of Letters in political science at Oxford University, graduating in 1992.
Culpepper returned to the United States, enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a master of arts and doctorate both in political science.
[1][2][3] Culpepper's book Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was awarded the 2012 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.