Selected Faculty Labs

Faculty Labs are multidisciplinary research labs led by SNF Agora core scholars that bring together scholars, students, and practitioners to explore key questions related to democracy, civic engagement, and social change through collaborative research, teaching, and public programming. These labs connect academic scholarship to real-world impact.

Featured Faculty Labs

  • Center for Economy + Society

    A multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to reinvigorating debates about politics, economics, and culture and identifying new possibilities for change.

  • Arena

    A global initiative tackling the challenges of modern disinformation and polarization that threaten democratic societies.

  • Hard Histories at Johns Hopkins

    Confronting the enduring legacy of racism and discrimination in the university's own past.

  • The Polytunity Project

    Led by SNF Agora faculty member Yuen Yuen Ang, The Polytunity Project reframes today’s disruptions—often labeled the “polycrisis”—as a generational opening for deep transformation in global thought. Its intellectual foundation is AIM (adaptive, inclusive, moral) political economy, which Ang has applied across her scholarship.

  • P3 Lab

    Working to ensure that participation is possible, probable, and powerful for all.

Leading the Conversation

Expert Directory

Adam Seth Levine

SNF Agora Professor of Health Policy and Management
Adam Seth Levine, SNF Agora Professor of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University, recently gave the Annual Lecture of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, part of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The lecture, entitled Collaborate Now! How Expertise Becomes Useful in Civic Life, highlighted his research into the transformative power of collaboration in making expertise actionable and demonstrated how these efforts align with the goals of both public health and democracy.
Adam Seth Levine Headshot
Read the Article