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Chercheuse permanente, Cevipof, professeur de philosophie politique, Sciences Po

Oct. 2020 : Professeure des Universités, Sciences Po, Paris.
Sept. 2017 : PAST, Sciences Po, Paris et Chercheuse Permanente, CEVIPOF. (Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po)
2011 -2017 : Professeure Associée, Science Politique, Université de Genève.
Sept. 2009 : Senior Research Fellow in Interdisciplinary Bioethics,
Dec. 2010 : Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester

Research topics: Privacy, sexual and racial equality, democratic theory, ethics of voting, security (racial profiling, proportionality, ethics of counter-terrorism), methodology and epistemology, ethics and public policy

Recent grants
July 2019 - EC Coordination and Support Grant (as Project Coordinator): Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective (REDEM). Project 870996. Call H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019. https://www.redem-h2020.eu/index.html and https://www.redem-h2020.eu/ws-paris-2.html

Dec. 2021 -2022 KCL-UParis Joint Research Award (in association with Adrian Blau and Justin Smith): ‘Satire and Democracy’. For the conference see http://www.satiredem.net/index.html;

June 2021 Civica Research Project, ‘Attitudes to Inequalities; Perceptions, Judgements, Justifications’, programme: democracy in the 21st Century. Consortium member.

Journalism
Interview: The Fragility of Democracy https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/fmsh/annabelle-lever-s-interview, 18 march 2022
‘Plaidoyer pour la déconstruction’, Telos, February, 2021 (open access) https://www.telos-eu.com/auteur/25933/annabelle-lever.html
‘Le mot “race”: un débat français’, AOC (Analyse Opinion Critique) 31.05.19
‘Privacy and Photography’, interview with Camille Simon, photo ed. L’Obs , for Source, issue 96, winter 2018.
‘Privacy’, interview with David Edmonds, March 15, 2017, http://philosophy247.org/podcasts/privacy/
‘Statistical Discrimination’ The Philosophers Magazine (72.1. 2016)
‘Equality v. Conscience? Ethics and the Provision of Public Services’ The Philosophers Magazine 69. (July 2015)
‘Privacy, Democracy and Surveillance’: The Philosophers Magazine, 63.4, 2013, 99 -105, part of a debate on ‘the ethics of surveillance’.
‘Vie privée, liberté d’expression et des médias’, interview by Philippe Zibung of Radio Babylone, Radio Télévision Suisse, 6 February 2012

recent articles
‘Democracy: Should We Replace Elections With Random Selection?’ Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, forthcoming

‘La démocratie et la sélection : tirage au sort, élections et l’égalité’, forthcoming in La Démocratie, une Idée force, ed. D. Rousseau, (éditions Mare et Martin, Paris 2022)

‘Egalité démocratique et tirage au sort’, with Chiara Destri, forthcoming in Raisons Politiques (special issue on elections, ed. Pierre-Etienne Vandamme)

‘Equality and Constitutionality’ forthcoming in eds. Jeff King and Richard Bellamy, Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory, 2022. Ch. 4

‘Democracy and Truth’, Raison Politique a special issue on ‘Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy’, eds. Annabelle Lever and Dominik Gerber, 1.8. 2021, 29 -38.

For the rest see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annabelle-Lever and www.alever.net.

Experience

  • –present
    Prof, école doctorale sciences po, chercheuse permanent cevipof; expertise theorie politique normative; theorie de la démocratie, éthique du vote (je suis coordinatrice d'un projet europééen sur le sujet); philosophie de race et de sexe; vie privée, etc; , Sciences Po – USPC

Education

  • 1997 
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Political Science/Political Theory
  • 1984 
    Oxford University, Modern History BA

Honours

Doctor Honoris Causa, Univesrity of Aalborg. April 15, 2021