Dr. Stephanie Nevin

Biography

Stephanie Almeida Nevin is the Executive Director of the Yale Center for Civic Thought and a Lecturer in the Humanities at Yale University. She works to encourage thoughtful public discourse and supports a civically responsible intellectual life among the rising generation of students, faculty, citizens, and leaders. As a co-founder of Yale’s Citizens, Thinkers, Writers program, she has played a pivotal role in the design, implementation, and expansion of a nationally recognized initiative focused on civic thought and humanistic education since its founding in 2016. Nevin has overseen various aspects of programming and community partnerships, along with strategic growth initiatives. She co-led the development of programming resources for similar initiatives across the country. Additionally, Nevin serves on the Leadership Council for the national Knowledge for Freedom Network, where she is responsible for designing and hosting the inaugural Faculty Institute at Yale in January 2024. She has been invited to present at the 2024 National Summit on Civic Education in Philadelphia and is a charter member of the Alliance Civics Academy. Nevin participates in the National Civic Collaboratory, a network dedicated to strengthening democracy through trust-based collaboration. At Yale, she teaches courses in political theory within the Directed Studies program, with research focused on the philosophers theorizing the relationship between politics and education from antiquity to the present. Her dissertation, titled 'The Spirit of Education: Politics and Pedagogy from Plato to Rousseau, Dewey, and Freire,' received Departmental Distinction from Yale, and her research on Rousseau earned the 2022 Robert C. Wood Prize from the New England Political Science Association. Nevin holds a B.A. in Politics and English from Pomona College and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

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