Meira Levinson

Meira Levinson is an American political philosopher and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2014, she is the author of The Demands of Liberal Education, published in 1999, and No Citizen Left Behind, published in 2012, and co-editor of Making Civics Count and Dilemmas of Educational Ethics. She earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy at Yale University in 1992 and her doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1997, and worked as a middle school teacher in Atlanta and Boston before joining the Harvard faculty in 2007. She works in political philosophy, particularly at the intersection of educational ethics, civic education, youth empowerment and racial justice.