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And Doctor of Philosophy (1992) in History from the University of Chicago.
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Matthew Levinger
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He is a Senior Program Officer in the Education and Training Center at the United States Institute of Peace. Levinger received a Bachelor of Arts (1983) from Haverford College and an Master of Arts He taught at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York (1983-1985) and was lecturer at Stanford University (1991-1994). He was Assistant (1994-2000) and Associate (2000-2005) Professor of History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
From January 2003 to January 2004, he was a William C. Foster Fellow at the United States. Department of State, where he worked on initiatives for atrocities early warning and prevention in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
In 2004-2005, he worked as a consultant for the United States. Holocaust Memorial Museum, developing plans for the Academy for Genocide Prevention. From 2005-2007, Levinger served as director of the Academy for Genocide Prevention at the United States. Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2005 to 2007.
During this time he played a key role in launching the Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. In December 2008 the Task Force released a report entitled "Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for United States. Policymakers.".
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His research and teaching have focused on the history of nationalism and revolutionary political theory in modern Europe, as well as the history of genocide during the twentieth century. He is the author of Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848 (Oxford, 2000) and coauthor of The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850 (Norton, 2002).
