Summary
Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue
The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University was founded in 2017 with a $150 million gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
We are a multi-disciplinary academic and public forum dedicated to strengthening global democracy by improving and expanding civic engagement and inclusive dialogue, and by supporting inquiry that leads to real-world change.
By building integrated partnerships with scholars, practitioners, students, and the public, we use research to identify and sharpen strategic choices that members of the public and civic and political stakeholders around the world can make to realize the promise of democracy.
Johns Hopkins University – 17/11/2021 (04:28)
The core faculty of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute – formally installed on November 15, 2021 – will work to strengthen global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue. The SNF Agora building was designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano and is currently under construction.
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News
JH Center for Gun Violence Solutions , – February 22, 2024 (57:00)
Recent U.S. elections have been marked by threats, armed intimidation and political violence. As the 2024 U.S. general election approaches the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions hosted a webinar to discuss solutions against political violence and the threat of armed insurrection.
Expert panelists discussed the implications of these threats to our country, public perception, and steps our leaders must take to protect our democratic institutions laid out in the Center’s report “Defending Democracy”.
In April, SNF Agora was pleased to partner with the German Marshall Fund on its 2024 Brussels Forum, the preeminent annual platform for global leaders, policymakers, and experts across sectors to address democracy’s most pressing global challenges.
On April 18, Director Hahrie Han and fellow Scott Warren led a convening with GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy called “AI and Elections: A Transatlantic Take,” where E.U. and U.S. government, civil society, campaign and tech leaders discussed AI’s impact on elections in Europe and the United States. The next day, senior fellow Peter Pomerantsev took to the Brussels Forum main stage to share his insights on rebuilding trust in information in the age of AI.
Watch the Q&A with Peter Pomerantsev below.
Harvard Gazette, – April 19, 2024
Donating money, signing petitions, and sharing views on social media are some of the common ways Americans exercise their civic duty. Hahrie Han ’97 says they aren’t enough.
The professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, who delivered the first of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Paine Hall last week, said revitalizing American democracy will require an additional ingredient. She argued that today’s citizens are not given enough opportunity for collective activities that cultivate feelings of belonging and agency.
“Part of what we’ve lost in 21st-century America is a particular form of collective action that teaches people the commitments and capabilities of power-sharing that are necessary in pluralistic democracy,” said Han, who directs Johns Hopkins’ SNF Agora Institute and P3 Research Lab.
Social movements are behind the most powerful changes in the world – from voting rights to political upheavals to the fight for racial equality. But how do you build a movement that unites millions of people and captures the attention of those in power?
This episode of the World Economic Forum’s #ExpertsExplain series delves into the art of creating successful social movements with #HahrieHan, Professor of Political Science at #JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
Han is also Inaugural Director of #SNFAgora Institute, using data and research to realise the promise of democracy all over the world, and an award-winning member of the Schwab Foundation for Social Enterpreneurship.
We live in an era when social media makes it easier than ever to find followers and get noticed. ‘I can send out one tweet or a viral hashtag. I can get hundreds of thousands or even millions of people out into the streets,’ says Han, who has written four books about #SocialChange. ‘
But when you talk to the people who are on the frontlines, on the one hand they feel like it’s easier than ever before to get people involved – but on the other hand, it’s harder than ever to make it feel like their participation actually matters.’
So what exactly is the secret to a successful #protest or wider action for #socialgood?
According to Han, there’s more than one. A good movement needs to ‘make the participation of ordinary people possible, so that people can participate,’ she begins. After that, a good movement ‘makes it probable, so that people want to participate. And then it makes it powerful. It creates a scaffolding or a vehicle through which people can realise their own power.
‘And one of the trends that we’re seeing in social movements in the 21st century is this funny paradox between participation being possible but not being as powerful.’
Read the full interview here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/0…
Han’s research, which entails connecting with people organizing social movements on the ground around the world, deals with what these movements can teach us about how to harness civic engagement to strengthen democracy. Learn more about the award.
Created in 2018 through a $150 million grant from SNF, the SNF Agora Institute brings together experts from political science, psychology, philosophy, and other disciplines to translate scholarly insights into actionable knowledge that can make pluralistic democracy more resilient. Upcoming events include a discussion with U.S. Congressman Jamie Raskin on Making Your Voice Count: Activism, Voting, and the Democratic Ideal.
Local faith institutions and social organizations are the top providers of civic engagement, and civic opportunity decreases as poverty levels increase, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute.
People in many parts of the United States possess few chances for the robust community engagement that underpins healthy democracies, according to a new report that for the first time maps civic opportunity across the country.
The heat map created by Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, reveals patterns of inequality in civic opportunity tied to race, class, immigration status and education. Researchers also found that a great deal of civic engagement happens through local faith institutions and social and fraternal organizations, not D.C.-based advocacy organizations that tend to carry political clout.
The report is the initial phase of an ambitious effort to map the modern agora, referring to the lively assembly places of ancient Greece often considered to be the birthplace of democracy. The work is published in Nature Human Behaviour.
They are at different stages of careers in journalism, with diverse research interests covering areas from far-right discourse and human rights to climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and the digital public sphere. Soon, they will meet as Lede Program fellows at Columbia University, at one of the world’s foremost journalism schools, to develop their knowledge and skills even further.
Fellows were selected through an open application process in March and April by Columbia Journalism School. (SNF, the fellowship program’s exclusive supporter, is not involved in the evaluation of applicants.) The Lede Program is a 10-week summer program running from June 3 to August 9 that focuses on data journalism, analysis, and visualization. During and after the program, participants will receive strategic guidance from professionals at the Greece-based journalism nonprofit iMEdD. The SNF fellowships cover travel, accommodation, tuition, transportation, and food.
SNF’s support for the implementation of the Data Journalism Fellowship Program at Columbia University’s School of Journalism is part of the Foundation’s broader effort to promote and enhance transparency, independence, and excellence in journalism, most notably through support for iMEdD. The grant for the Fellowship Program follows previous SNF support for a three-year pilot Fellowship Program from 2017 to 2019 at the School of Journalism, in which 53 journalists from Greece focused on data journalism, investigative journalism, and multimedia reporting. As part of its Ideas Zone offerings, iMEdD has previously collaborated with Columbia Journalism School on the implementation of Newsroom Essentials, a program held in Greece that covered a variety of topics, including data journalism applications and the concept of entrepreneurship in journalism.
Important note: SNF is an exclusive supporter of the Fellowship Program and is not involved in the evaluation of applicants, whose selection is the sole responsibility of the Columbia University School of Journalism.
JHU Hub, – August 28, 2023
At Johns Hopkins University’s annual Democracy Day, new students learn about the importance of—and threats to—modern democracies
Much of this year’s programming focused on the problems facing democracy, a theme JHU President Ron Daniels echoed in his opening remarks.
After his remarks, Daniels introduced Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown, who previously served as the state’s lieutenant governor and as a U.S. Congressman representing Maryland’s 4th Congressional District. Brown stressed that democracy depends on more than just individual participation.
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, – April 13, 2023
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute’s University debate initiative co-hosted the debate on the Supreme Court featuring Neal Katyal and Jeffrey Rosen on April 6. This was the fifth event in the 2023 Foreign Affairs Symposium series “Paradigm Shift.”
The primary focus of the event was to use Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision from last year that decided there is no constitutional right to an abortion and overturned Roe v. Wade, to provide a better understanding of the Constitution and the Supreme Court’s ruling process. Both speakers were assigned positions to take on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; the affirmative position would argue that the Dobbs case was correctly decided, while the negating position would argue that the case was wrongly decided.
In an email to The News-Letter, Louise Flavahan, dialogue and debate director of the SNF Agora Institute, conveyed that the event was planned in response to student interest.
“We’ve heard repeatedly that students know that the Supreme Court has become a flashpoint in American politics and is influencing many important policy and legal issues that directly impact their lives, but they don’t quite know or understand the details or how to effectively engage in the conversations going on about the Court or, perhaps most importantly, what they can do about it,” she wrote.
Cities and Citizenship
Wednesday, February 8
Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore
Highlights from the Festival
Join the SNF Agora Institute for the third annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival—a free event bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the country to join with the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore communities as we grapple with some of the most urgent challenges facing democracy, model civic engagement across divides, and celebrate democratic resilience and opportunity.
Through this year’s theme, “cities and citizenship,” we will be exploring questions about the challenges cities face at the frontlines of democracy and the innovations they are making to strengthen local engagement. The festival also includes an art installation by Globe Collection and Press, music by DJ Mebaa, and a dinner hosted by The People’s Supper.
All programming takes place at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. Johns Hopkins students can take advantage of a free shuttle to and from the museum.
At the Johns Hopkins institute-produced event, experts debated the complex relationship between truth, technology and privacy in the digital age.
he role of social media as a primary news source and the potential threat of disinformation to democracy was the focus of an intense debate during a recent gathering at a Baltimore-based global research foundation.
Since 2017, the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has aimed to strengthen global democracy through civic engagement and inclusive dialogue, offering university courses, public programs and fellowships.
Last week, the institute held the Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum to further this aim.
The event culminated in a debate revolving around the complex relationship between truth, technology and democracy in the digital age.
“I think it’s fair to say that a healthy democracy hinges on the ability of any individual to hear and to be heard in the marketplace of ideas,” said Hopkins’ president Ronald J. Daniels in his event introduction.
About
Mission & Impact
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute seeks to realize the promise of the ancient agora in modern times, by strengthening opportunities for people of all backgrounds to dialogue across difference, vigorously contest values and ideas that form the foundation of pluralistic democracy, and act together to have voice in developing solutions that lead to a better world.
We are an academic and public forum that integrates research, teaching, and practice to improve and expand powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue as the cornerstone of robust global democracy. We work by generating scholarly insights and transforming them into usable knowledge for civic and political actors who can enable real-world change.
Founded in 2017 with a visionary $150 million gift to Johns Hopkins University from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the SNF Agora Institute draws inspiration from the ancient Athenian agora, a gathering place for shared conversation, debate, and action that became the heart of democratic governance in Athens.
Our objective is to translate the best insights from academic scholarship into actionable knowledge in the real world. As we are a university-based institute, our students and faculty are our core constituencies. However, through our research, teaching, and practice, our objective is to impact people who are or will become leaders of the modern-day agora. This includes the community leaders, advocates, non-governmental organizations, party organizations, public thinkers, and arbiters of the public information sphere who are catalysts of civil society around the world, and the students at Johns Hopkins who will go on to fill those positions. These leaders of the modern agora act as intermediaries connecting people to the political process, to allow proper functioning of the norms, behaviors, and institutions that make liberal democracy possible.
We organize our work around three core functions:
- Discovery: At the core of the SNF Agora Institute is a group of Johns Hopkins University–based scholars who will catalyze transformative, multi-disciplinary inquiry to understand democratic decline and resilience, and to identify possible interventions.
- Design: SNF Agora scholars will collaborate with practitioners to test practical interventions and translate academic research into usable knowledge for the world.
- Dialogue: Created as a forum for broad engagement, deliberation, and education, the SNF Agora Institute will share our work with the public through teaching, training, writing, and convening in order to strengthen citizens’ capacity for productive participation and leadership in democracy.
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Strategic Plan & Annual Reports
Watch: Celebrating the Inaugural SNF Agora Professors
The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University was founded in 2017 with a $150 million gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. We are a multi-disciplinary academic and public forum dedicated to strengthening global democracy by improving and expanding civic engagement and inclusive dialogue, and by supporting inquiry that leads to real-world change. By building integrated partnerships with scholars, practitioners, students, and the public, we use research to identify and sharpen strategic choices that members of the public and civic and political stakeholders around the world can make to realize the promise of democracy.
The institute draws its name and inspiration from the ancient Athenian agora. Originally designed as a marketplace, the agora grew to become the heart of democratic governance in Athens. It provided a structured forum for debate, disagreement, and deliberation, and a place where Athenians learned both the rights and responsibilities of democracy, and where they developed capacities for participation in public life.
Building on the unique strengths of Johns Hopkins—its world-class faculty, its interdisciplinary focus, and its dedication to bold experimentation—we seek to reinvigorate the ethos of the ancient agora for the 21st century. Our scholars study the behavioral, organizational, and institutional foundations of democracy; develop and test interventions to reverse trends toward decline; and share lessons learned to promote civic engagement and inclusive dialogue around the critical issues of our time. Ultimately, we seek to recreate agora-like spaces that are critical to deliberative democracy.
Source: SNF Agora website
Board of Overseers
The Board of Overseers helps the Institute’s leadership, faculty, and staff to achieve its mission by providing authoritative advice, guidance, and support on the strategic direction of the Institute.
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Careers
Johns Hopkins is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The university is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Consistent with the university’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will assess the comprehensive qualifications of each applicant.
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Ways to Support
Apply
Interested in joining the team at the SNF Agora Institute? We invite you to visit our career page.
Students are encouraged to visit our student page to learn more about SNF Agora courses and opportunities.
Donate
Interested in donating to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University? Generous donations are vital to furthering the Johns Hopkins tradition of education and research. We are deeply grateful for your support.
To make your gift today, complete this secure online giving form. If you have any questions, please call the Development Office at 410-516-8722.
Volunteer
There are no volunteer opportunities at this time. However, we invite all who are interested to attend SNF Agora’s many events. Please visit our events page to learn more.
Collaborate
The SNF Agora Institute is always looking to partner with organizations and experts that share in its mission of promoting civic engagement and public discourse. Please email snfagora@jhu.edu to discuss opportunities for collaboration.
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Academic Freedom at JHU
Please find the Johns Hopkins University statement on academic freedom here.
Contact
Email: SNF Agora form, SNF Agora
Locations
SNF Agora Institute Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
3100 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410.516.5900
Web Links
Videos
Elijah E Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival 2024 Highlights Video
February 27, 2024 (03:19)
By: SNF Agora Institute
SNF Agora Institute—2021-2022 Year in Review
November 10, 2022 (02:38)
By: SNF Agora Institute
Scholarship & Topics
Publications
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Publishing is at the core of academic work, and SNF Agora scholars publish books, articles in peer reviewed journals, case studies, and more.
Projects
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Discovery is the academic work of our core scholars. Design projects are collaborations with practitioners to translate academic research into usable knowledge for the world.
Agora Case Studies
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Practitioners, teachers, trainers, and organizations can use SNF Agora case studies to deepen skills, develop insights about how to approach strategic choices and dilemmas, and to get to know each other better and work more effectively.
Bridging Divides
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Civic Life
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FEATURED Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
Race, Ethnicity, and Democracy
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A collaboration to understand how we create collective settings that develop the behaviors and orientations that underlie a culture of democracy.
More SNF Agora Topics
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SNF Agora aims to create a space for the vital research and learning that will help us make sense of the issues of the moment and chart a productive path forward.
- DISINFORMATION
- ELECTIONS AND VOTING
- POPULISM
- ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- YOUTH ACTIVISM AND ENGAGEMENT
- POLARIZATION
Programs & Events
B.A. in Moral and Political Economy
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A new major that inspires students to think about economic problems in social, cultural, and political contexts
Major Overview:
The B.A. program in Moral and Political Economy is a new interdisciplinary major that inspires students to think about economic problems in their social, cultural, moral, and political contexts.
Students who join the MPE major are encouraged to think flexibly across social-scientific and humanistic disciplines in conceiving novel and integrated approaches to problems of ongoing social concern. Its curriculum includes an intensive two-semester introductory course, “Social Theories of the Economy”; a reading seminar; an independent research lab; introductory macro- and microeconomics, five electives; and a mandatory senior thesis. Four of each student’s courses must align with a “focus track” designed by the student and approved by the program.
Minor in Civic Life
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Minor Overview:
What does it take for people to engage productively as informed, skilled, and effective members of democratic communities and the world? Whether we are scientists, doctors, engineers, advocates, public servants, or anything else, we are all members of pluralistic communities. In all of these communities, people of all kinds need capacities to engage productively with one another, develop the skills to negotiate difference, and cooperate to achieve common goals. The area of civic studies examines why such skills are foundational to making liberal democracy work in pluralistic societies, how such capacities can be nurtured, and the historical and contemporary struggles to realize these principles. It is an applied and interdisciplinary field, incorporating critical reflection, ethical thinking, empirical understanding, historical perspectives, and action for social change within and between societies.
The Minor in Civic Life introduces students to civic studies though its core seminars, electives, and experiential learning opportunities. Students participating in the minor will join a vibrant community of student peers, faculty, and fellows at the SNF Agora Institute. Regardless of their primary area of undergraduate study, the Minor in Civic Life empowers students to be engaged global citizens. As a minor, it is specifically intended to engage and equip students interested in pursuing any kind of career (including STEM careers) with skills of critical inquiry and applied research they need.
Faculty Grants Program
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Apply now through April 07, 2024!
The purpose of the SNF Agora Faculty Grants Program is to encourage and support work of Johns Hopkins faculty, particularly faculty from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS), that is complementary to SNF Agora’s mission. This could take the form of scholarship, convenings, policy briefings, and more. SNF Agora wants to support and amplify this work through its institute and foster faculty collaboration across the university on ideas and efforts that can reinvigorate global democracy and the civic spaces that fuel it.
The SNF Agora Faculty Grants program typically provides smaller grants (less than $5,000) to support faculty work, but may also provide one larger grant per year with up to $20,000 in funding. The grants run on an annual fiscal year with a start date of July 1, 2024 and an end date of June 30, 2025.
To submit your grant proposal (narrative, budget, and resume), please click here.
Faculty Affiliates Program
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The purpose of the SNF Agora Faculty Affiliates program is to encourage partnership between SNF Agora faculty and scholars within the broader academic community domestically and internationally based in addition to colleagues at Johns Hopkins University. The affiliates program supports work at Johns Hopkins and at other universities that is complementary to SNF Agora’s mission. Through this program, interested faculty will be able to participate in the scholarly life of SNF Agora and, in turn, will benefit from collaborating with a wider community of colleagues who share a passion for reinvigorating global democracies and the civic spaces that fuel them.
SNF Agora Faculty Affiliates function similarly to courtesy appointments typically offered by large universities. Faculty who are appointed as affiliates at the SNF Agora Institute will not have voting rights in any capacity, but will otherwise be invited to participate fully in the life of the institute.
All affiliate appointments are made for a two-year period and are reviewed every odd year.
Visiting Fellows Program
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The SNF Agora Visiting Fellows program supports the institute’s mission of strengthening global democracy by enabling us to expand our reach and incorporate a broader range of people into our work. This program identifies and recruits a select cohort of fellows from diverse sectors, disciplines, backgrounds, and ideologies to join the institute to work with our permanent faculty, researchers and students during the academic year. While Visiting Fellows join the institute to work on projects during a defined period–typically one semester or less–they are also active members of the institute community throughout the academic year, participating in community workshops, public programs, and more. Visiting Fellows contribute to an academic community that is open and permeable—based at Johns Hopkins but reaching well beyond its walls.
Applications for the Visiting Fellows program open in January each year for participation during the following academic year. The institute welcomes applicants from civil society, government, industry, media, academia, the performing arts, and other fields. In some years, we will have thematic focus areas based on the work we anticipate doing at the institute.
For this 2024-25 cycle, our focus areas are (1) elections and (2) modernizing civics education at the university level.
Graduate Student Fellows Program
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The SNF Agora Institute has funding to support a modest number of competitive graduate student fellowships each year. These fellowships are designed to:
- deepen the training and scholarship of PhD students at Johns Hopkins University,
- broaden the scholarly community at the SNF Agora Institute by supporting students to join us for one year.
The SNF Agora Institute would cover the student’s tuition costs normally covered by the department, the standard KSAS stipend, and health insurance, fees, and other benefits for students during the year that they are a fellow.
Our hope is that during their fellowship year, students would participate actively in the scholarly life of the SNF Agora Institute, working in partnership with SNF Agora Institute faculty during that year. We expect that participation in the life of the SNF Agora Institute would be comparable in time to a 20-hours-a-week TA-ship (or whatever the norm of TA-ships are for the student’s department).
Hard Histories Conversations
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Join Hard Histories for a series of events, including book talks, seminars, and other conversations exploring the histories of slavery and racism in the Maryland area. Launched in fall 2020, the Hard Histories at Hopkins Project examines the role that racism and discrimination have played at Johns Hopkins. Blending research, teaching, public engagement, and the creative arts, Hard Histories aims to engage our broadest communities—at Johns Hopkins and in Baltimore—in a frank and informed exploration of how racism has been produced and permitted to persist as part of our structure and our practice.
Faculty Seminars AY 23-24
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The SNF Agora Seminars bring together SNF Agora faculty, fellows, students, and colleagues from around the university for a series of academic seminars.
All seminars meet on Thursdays, noon to 1:30. Speakers will offer a short presentation, followed by a discussion. In some cases, speakers may provide a paper ahead of time.
All seminars will take place in the SNF Agora Conference Room, 3100 Wyman Park Drive, Suite N325, Homewood Campus or can be accessed on Zoom.
Conferences
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Conferences hosted and co-hosted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Webcasts
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Webcasts hosted and co-hosted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Other Events
Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festivals post
Experts & Partners
Faculty and Fellows
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The SNF Agora Institute’s interdisciplinary approach is reflected in the diverse group of scholars, policymakers, journalists, citizens, and practitioners that make up our community.
Affiliated Faculty
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SNF Agora affiliated faculty participate in the scholarly life of SNF Agora and, in turn, benefit from collaborating with a wider community of colleagues who share a passion for reinvigorating global democracies and the civic spaces that fuel them.
Past SNF Agora Fellows
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Leadership & Staff
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Student Fellows
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Careers
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NEW: Financial Analyst
Johns Hopkins is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The university is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Consistent with the university’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will assess the comprehensive qualifications of each applicant.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and culture, education, health, and sports and social welfare. SNF funds organizations and projects worldwide that aim to achieve a broad, lasting, and positive impact for society at large and exhibit strong leadership and sound management. The Foundation also supports projects that facilitate the formation of public-private partnerships as an effective means for serving public welfare.
Academic Advisory Board
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Board of Overseers
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Student Engagement Board
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The Student Engagement Board is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from across the university who share our mission of strengthening democracy through civic engagement and inclusive dialogue.
