The role of university in an era of democratic backsliding
Breadcrumb
17:00 - 18:00, 08 May 2025
Blavatnik School of Government and online
Open to the public
This event is free - please register below to attend
Join Margaret Levi, Professor Emerita of Political Science and Senior Fellow at Stanford University, for a conversation with Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, as they explore the role of university in the current political and economic climate.
Margaret Levi

Margaret Levi is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University. She is the former Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Levi is currently a faculty fellow at CASBS, co-director of the Stanford Ethics and Society Review, and the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the winner of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize and the 2020 Falling Walls Breakthrough. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association of Political and Social Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014 she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science, in 2017 gave the Elinor Ostrom Memorial Lecture, and in 2018 received an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.