Education: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 2009; M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1999; M.A., Stanford University, 1998; B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz, 1992.
Naomi Levy’s research centers on the relationships between ordinary citizens and the state. She has over two decades of experience conducting community-based research in conflict-affected settings around the world. Her research has taken her from the former Yugoslavia to Colombia to her own backyard in Oakland, CA. In all of her work, she strives to understand the forces that shape the relationship between ordinary citizens and the state and seeks to facilitate government responsiveness to community needs by amplifying the voices that are best placed to guide public servants.
She is a faculty affiliate at the at UC Berkeley, a research coordinator with the NGO, a certified workshop facilitator with the , and is the Director of 91¶ÌÊÓƵ’s .
Levy received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds an MA in Social Sciences of Education from Stanford University School of Education. Her scholarship has been published in a broad range of academic journals, and she has received funding for her work from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Minerva Initiative, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the California Community Foundation / California 100 Initiative, and Tipping Point.
- Political Science Research
- Applied Quantitative Methods
- Identity Politics in Comparative Perspective
- Political Psychology
- Jacobs, E., Levy, N., Reid, C., & Lerman, A.E. (2025). . Possibility Lab Report.
- Vera-Adrianzén, F., Cifuentes, R.G., Levy, N., & Lerman, A.E., (2024). . Possibility Lab Report
- Levy, N., Lerman, A.E., Dixon, P., & Vera-Adrianzén, F. (2024). . Possibility Lab Report.
- Levy, N., Lerman, A.E., & Dixon, P. (2023). . Law and Social Inquiry, 1-22.
- Levy, N., Lerman, A.E., & Skeem, J. (2023). . Report to Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, May 19, 2023.
- Levy, N., & Firchow, P. (2021). . PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(3), 558-564.
- Berg, L. A., & Levy, N. (2020). When aid builds states: party dominance and the effects of foreign aid on tax collection after civil war. International Interactions, 46(3), 454-480.
- Barma, N. H., Levy, N., & Piombo, J. (2020). The impact of aid dynamics on state effectiveness and legitimacy. Studies in Comparative International Development, 55, 184-203.
- Barma, N. H., Levy, N., & Piombo, J. (2017). . International Peacekeeping, 24(2), 187-211.