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Emily Levine

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Emily Jane Levine

Associate Professor

elevine@stanford.edu

- https://emilyjlevine.com/

Assistant: Leslie Dinan

Office: Littlefield 379

Biography

Dr. Emily J. Levine is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History at Stanford University. She received her PhD in History and the Humanities at Stanford and her BA from Yale, where she later returned as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. She is the author of Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association. Levine has published in The New York Times, the LA Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed, as well as in top scholarly journals. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Before arriving at Stanford, Levine was Associate Professor of European History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she held the Candace Bernard and Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorship and chaired the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar.

Other Titles

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
Associate Professor (By courtesy), History

Program Affiliations

SHIPS (PhD)
SHIPS (PhD): Higher Education
SHIPS (PhD): History of Education
(MA) ICE/IEPA
(MA) POLS

Research Interests

Higher Education | History | History of Education | Philosophy | Research Methods

See a full list of GSE Faculty research interests >

Recent Publications

Levine, E. J. (2024). Research & Teaching; Lasting Union or House Divided? DAEDALUS, 153(2), 21–35.

Levine, E. J. (2019). Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University. The University of Chicago Press.

Levine, E. (2016). Baltimore Teaches, Göttingen Learns: Cooperation, Competition, and the Research University, The American Historical Review.

Emily Levine in the News & Media

Emily Levine at the podium speaking.
May 1, 2023
Research Stories
Archival photo of university in Berlin
September 14, 2021
Podcast
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