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

  • Arena

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

  • Center for Economy + Society

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

  • Democracy and Division Lab

    The Democracy and Division Lab explores how dynamics of identity, civic trust, and political institutions interact to sustain or erode democratic resilience.

  • Hard Histories at Johns Hopkins

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

  • P3 Lab

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

  • The Polytunity Project

    The Polytunity Project reframes polycrisis as polytunity—a generational opening for deep transformation grounded in AIM: Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral Political Economy.

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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.
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