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Bruno Leipold is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He earned his DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford with a thesis on Citizen Marx: The Relationship between Karl Marx and Republicanism, an MA in Legal and Political Theory with distinction from University College London, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics with first-class honours from the University of Warwick. Before joining LSE, where he previously served as an LSE Fellow from 2019 to 2022, Leipold held postdoctoral positions including Fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg from 2022 to 2024, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence from 2018 to 2019, and Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Theory at the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and Free University of Berlin from 2017 to 2018. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at LSE from 2022 to 2024, Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po Paris in 2022, and Visiting Scholar at Humboldt University Berlin from 2016 to 2017.

Leipold's research centres on the thought of Karl Marx, the republican political tradition, democratic theory, socialism, and nineteenth-century political thought. He is the author of the monograph Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Radical Republicanism: Recovering the Tradition’s Popular Heritage (Oxford University Press, 2020). His peer-reviewed articles include ‘Constituency Juries: Holding Elected Representatives Accountable through Sortition’ in Perspectives on Politics (2025), ‘Aux Ouvrières!: Socialist Feminism in the Paris Commune’ with Mirjam Müller and James Muldoon in Intellectual History Review (2023), ‘The Meaning of Class Struggle: Marx and the 1848 June Days’ in History of Political Thought (2021), and ‘Political Anarchism and Raz’s Theory of Authority’ in Res Publica (2015). Notable book chapters are ‘Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx’s Account of Wage-Slavery’ in Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and ‘Marx’s Social Republic: Radical Republicanism and the Political Institutions of Socialism’ in Radical Republicanism (2020). Leipold is a principal investigator on the ERC Synergy Grant project Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV), a €9.2 million initiative from 2026 to 2032. He has received the ECPR Political Theory Prize and the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for Citizen Marx. At LSE, he teaches Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers (GV4F5) and Marx and Marxism (GV4G7), and is a member of the Political Theory research group. He has refereed for journals including American Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Theory, and Political Theory, and co-organized events such as Phillips Fest celebrating Anne Phillips.