Margaret Levi papers, circa 1965-2007

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Levi, Margaret
Title
Margaret Levi papers
Dates
circa 1965-2007 (inclusive)
Quantity
16.19 cubic ft. (18 boxes)
Collection Number
5356
Summary
Professor of political science and administrator, University of Washington
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact Special Collections for details.

Some material stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Request at UW

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Margaret Levi earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington. She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014 she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science.

She is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. She held the Chair in Politics, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, 2009-13 and is currently an Affiliate Professor there. At the University of Washington she was director of the CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) Center and formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and Director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

Levi is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and six books, including Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press, 1988); Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press, 1998); and Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage, 2005). Her most recent book, In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013), co-authored with John Ahlquist, explores how organizations provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest. In other work, she investigates the conditions under which people come to believe their governments are legitimate and the consequences of those beliefs for compliance, consent, and the rule of law. Her research continues to focus on how to improve the quality of government. She is also committed to understanding and improving supply chains so that the goods we consume are produced in a manner that sustains both the workers and the environment.

She is general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Levi serves on the boards of the: Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Institute For Advanced Study; Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS) in Madrid; and Scholar and Research Group of the World Justice Project. Levi and her husband, Robert Kaplan, are avid collectors of Australian Aboriginal art. Ancestral Modern, an exhibition drawn from their collection, was on view at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) in 2012. Yale University Press and SAM co-published the catalogue.Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988-9, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-1994. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, Oxford University, Bergen University, and Peking University. [Levi personal website https://sites.google.com/site/margaretlevi]

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Writings and publications, oral interview recordings, transcripts and notes, committee files, subject files, correspondence, course files, research files, awards, and art collection records.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

  • Accession No. 5356-001, Margaret Levi papers, ca. 1965-1985
  • Accession No. 5356-002, Margaret Levi papers, ca.1973-ca. 2007

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Accession No. 5356-001: Margaret Levi papers, ca. 1965-1985Return to Top

3.17 cubic feet (4 boxes)

Scope and Content: Subject files, writings, oral interview recordings, transcripts and notes, committee files.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Margaret Levi, February 28, 2001

Container(s) Description Dates
Subject Series
Box Accession
1 5356-001
League of Women Voters
1967-1968
1 5356-001
Action-Housing
1967
1 5356-001
Housing & Expansion Committee Work
1969
1 5356-001
Tydings' - Speeches, Bills, Etc.
undated
1 5356-001
Tydings' - Housing Bills
1967-1968
1 5356-001
Position Papers
undated
1 5356-001
Miscellaneous Memos
undated
1 5356-001
Housing in Balto.
1965-1967
1 5356-001
Background to Position Papers
1966-1967
1 5356-001
Miscellaneous
1965-1967
1 5356-001
Baltimore Project Papers
1965-1969
1 5356-001
[Untitled Notebook]
1968
1 5356-001
Balto. Stuff
1969-1970
1 5356-001
[Untitled Folder]
undated
1 5356-001
Valley General
1976-1977
1 5356-001
NEC
1977
1 5356-001
Seattle Area Hospital Council
1977
1 5356-001
Operating Engineers
1977
1 5356-001
Northwest
1977
2 5356-001
Burien General
1976-1977
2 5356-001
University Hospitals
1976-1977
2 5356-001
Poor People Against the State - Draft
1973
2 5356-001
Community Organizing
1970-1971
2 5356-001
Housing Managers
1971
2 5356-001
Community Organziaers - UPA
1971
2 5356-001
Public Housing Managers
1972
2 5356-001
Public Housing
1968
2 5356-001
Contradictions Feedback
1973
2 5356-001
Community Organization
undated
2 5356-001
South End Tenant Council (SETC)
1969-1970
2 5356-001
Barnett's Interviews
1970
2 5356-001
Tenants' Council
1970
2 5356-001
Poor People Against the State
1974
2 5356-001
Lower-Class Politician Organziations
1972
2 5356-001
General
1970
2 5356-001
Voter Reg.
1984
2 5356-001
Citizens' Committee on the Seattle Personnel Ordinance
1978
2 5356-001
Personnel Ordinance
1978
2 5356-001
Seattle Housing - Redlining
1975
3 5356-001
Mayor's Committee
1978-1979
3 5356-001
Citizen's Committee Documents
1978-1979
3 5356-001
Notebook - Citizen's Committee on the Seattle Personnel Ordinance (2 files)
1977-1978
3 5356-001
"Patrolmen's Unionism in NYC"
1974
3 5356-001
"Police Collective Bargaining"
1974
3 5356-001
Police Employee Association
1972
3 5356-001
Interviews - NY
1972-1974
3 5356-001
Interviews - Detriot
1972-1973
3 5356-001
Interviews - Atlanta
1972-1973
3 5356-001
Police Associations
1972-1974
3 5356-001
Talk - Police History
1978
3 5356-001
Proposals - Police Unions
1972
3 5356-001
Permissions
1976
3 5356-001
Magazine - Urban Housing: Issues and Problems
1969
3 5356-001
SETC paper
1969
3 5356-001
Urban Field Service (UFS)
1969-1970
3 5356-001
South End Tenant Council
undated
3 5356-001
South End Documents
1968-1969
3 5356-001
Tenant Management Lord
1968
3 5356-001
Hartman-Graduate School of Design
1970
Interviews
Box Accession
4 5356-001
20 audio cassette tapes
1970-1973

Accession No. 5356-002: Margaret Levi papers, ca.1973-ca.2007Return to Top

13.02 cubic feet (14 boxes)

Scope and Content: Correspondence, course files, writings and publications, research files, awards, and art collection records.

Physical/Technical Access: Materials stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact Special Collections for details.

Materials stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Acquisition Info: Margaret Levi, 2014-06-13

Container(s) Description
Box Accession
1 5356-002
UW Students Against Sweatshops (and its different iterations)
2 5356-002
Conferences and Workshops, Past Courses (Part 2)
3 5356-002
Past Courses
4 5356-002
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), academic travel, American Political Science Association, course evaluations, journal participation, newspaper features
5 5356-002
Grants information
6-9 5356-002
Past research
10 5356-002
Drafts of articles, Australia Fellowship information,
11 5356-002
Assorted correspondence, work pre-professorship (part 2), information and correspondence from the Novel Committee (grey folder)
12 5356-002
Information on art collection (part 3), copies of articles
13-14 5356-002
Awards and certificates

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Levi, Margaret--Archives