Eric Mlyn

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 UNCChapel Hill. Mlyn leads a project on Democracy and the Politics of American Higher Education, which gathers faculty, administrators, and members of the public to reflect on how the university should respond to ongoing threats toward democratic values and principles. He also leads the DukeEngage program Democracy at Risk, in which Duke undergraduates spend a summer in Washington, D.C., working with prodemocracy nonprofits. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. During the fall of 2019 he was a visiting scholar at the Tisch College for Civic Life at Tufts, and in 2012 was a Senior Fellow at the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo.