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.

Courses

• PUBPOL 190FS: Focus Program Introductory Special Topics in Public Policy
• POLSCI 493-2: Senior Research Independent Study Political Institutions
• POLSCI 493-1: Senior Research Independent Study Political Theory
• POLSCI 190FS: Special Topics in the Focus Program
• MUSIC 89S: First-Year Seminar
• I&E 89S: Special Topics
• HISTORY 89S: First-Year Seminar
• FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus
• ETHICS 89S: Special Topic: First-Year Seminar in Ethics
• ETHICS 190FS: Special Topics in Ethics (Focus Program)
• EDUC 190FS: Focus Special Topics