Peter Levine

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Biographical Information

"Peter Levine became Director of CIRCLE in January 2006, succeeding Bill Galston. He is also Research Director of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. Outside of Tufts, he is involved with:"

• The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (steering committee member, former chair)
• The Charles Kettering Foundation (director)
• Deliberative Democracy Consortium (steering committee member)
• Everyday Democracy (as board member of the J. Paul Aicher Foundation, which oversees it)
• Streetlaw, Inc. (member of the Board of Directors and Program Committee chair)
• AmericaSpeaks (board member)
• Advisory boards: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Civics Committee and Background Variables Committee; America’s Promise Research Council; Mobilize.org Advisory Board; American Bar Association Standing Committee on Public Education Advisory Commission; The Democracy Imperative

Books

• We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Philosophy and Practice of Civic Renewal (tentative title), Oxford University Press, in press
• Reforming the Humanities: Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
• Engaging Young People in Civic Life, co-edited volume with James Youniss
• The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens (All proceeds benefit CIRCLE)
• The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century(co-edited volume, with John Gastil)
• The New Progressive Era: Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy
• Living Without Philosophy
• Something to Hide (a novel)
• Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities