Emily Levine, M.A. ‘05 PhD ‘08

About Emily: Dr. Emily J. Levine is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History at Stanford University. She is the author of Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association. Levine has published in The New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, as well as other public outlets and top scholarly journals. She is married to Matthew Rascoff, who leads Stanford Digital Education, and they have two children.

Title talk: How a 1900 Stanford Speech Scandal Changed Higher Education
University speech is front page news. But academic freedom didn’t always exist. In 1900, when the founding president, David Starr Jordan, forced the resignation of Edward A. Ross, he spurred a series of events that led to the founding of the American Association of University Professors and the invention of academic freedom that took on a life of its own.