University-based Centers and Institutes focused on research, teaching, and civic engagement on issues related to democracy.
The University Democracy Centers and Institutes listed in alphabetic order below share events and open-access resources to foster democracy, rights, and civic engagement around the world.
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Big Ten Collaboration Democracy Summit
Matthew Baggetta
Associate Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
Harvard University
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation​​
Archon Fung, Director
Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government​​​
Johns Hopkins University
Ruth Braunstein, Director
SNF Agora Professor of Sociology
Notre Dame University
Mauricio Benítez Iturbe, Executive Director
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María Elena Bessignano, Senior Institute Coordinator
David Campell, Director
Joel Day, Managing Director
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Princeton University
Hye Young You, Interim Director
Kathryn Stoner, Director
Satre Family Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
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Hesham Sallam, Associate Director for Research
Tufts University
Dayna L. Cunningham, Dean
Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of Civic Life
David Broockman, Director
University of Chicago
Susan Stokes, Director
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science
University of Denver
Naazneen H. Barma​, Director
Scrivner Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
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Katie Aker, Associate Director
University of Southern California
Mindy Romero, Director​
Public Policy Institute of California Adjunct Fellow
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Ashley Moran, Co-Director​
Research Scientist
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Zachary Elkins, Co-Director
University of Virginia
Stephen Parks, Director
Professor in the Writing and Rhetoric Program at the University of Virginia’s Department of English. Founder of the Democratic Futures Project.​
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Karsh Institute of Democracy ​
Melody Barnes, Director
W.L. Lyons Brown Family Director for Policy and Public Engagement and Professor of Practice, Miller Center of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin
Michael Wagner, Faculty Director
Dhavan Shah, Research Director
Noam Lupu, Director
Center for Global Democracy
Professor of Political Science
Cornell University
​​Rachel Beatty Riedl, Director
Peggy Koenig ’78 Director of the Center on Democracy; Professor, Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy.
Consortium
Jessica Gottlieb, Co-Director
Associate Professor in the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston
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Laura Paler, Co-Director
Executive Director of the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University​​
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Robert Blair, Co-Director
Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University
Georgetown University
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Diana Kapiszewski, Co-Director
Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies
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Hans Noel, Co-Director
Associate Professor of Government
Dan Slater​, Director
Center for Emerging Democracies
James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science
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