Please note: Eric has left the "Civic Engagement & Social Change Certificate" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
Eric Mlyn is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Lecturer at Duke’s Sanford School for Public Policy. He was the founding Executive Director of DukeEngage and Assistant vice Provost for Civic Engagement. Before that he was the founding director of the Robertson Scholars Program and served on the Political Science Faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill. He leads a project at Kenan on Democracy and Higher Education, looking at current threats to academic freedom, university governance and related issues.. His intellectual interests focus on the role of higher education in fostering democracy and working with undergraduates to foster political and civic engagement. He holds a BA in Political Science from Tufts University and PHD in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. During the fall of 2019 he was a a visiting scholar at the Tisch College for Civic Life at Tufts.
| Office Location: | 104AA West Duke Buiding, Box 90423, Durham, NC 27708 |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-3027 |
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| Ph.D. | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 1991 |