Danielle Charette is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy and a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Her current research addresses tensions between republican institutions and the emergence of political economy in the writings of David Hume and other Scottish Enlightenment figures. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the History of Political Thought, History of European Ideas, and Political Theory (online archive). She earned her BA from Swarthmore College and her PhD from the University of Chicago.