Alan Levine
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Director and Associate Professor, American University
Alan Levine is the Director of the Political Theory Institute and Associate Professor of Government at American University.He has expertise in several areas, including the history of political thought, American government, and comparative democracy.
Levine is the author of Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne’s Politics of the Self and a co-editor of A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Political Thought of the Civil War. He has previously worked for the U.S. Department of State in Dakar, Senegal and is a regular consultant for the State Department’s International Visitors Program.
Levine is an accomplished professor, having won five teaching awards, including the Jack Miller Center’s 2023 Excellence in Civic Education Award.
Dr. Levine earned his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University.
Research interests:
Philosophical foundations of the U.S. government
Comparative democracy
European perceptions of America
Toleration
Postmodernism
Ethics
Human rights
History of political philosophy
