Lawrence W. Levine is a Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of history and cultural studies at George Mason University in Virginia. He is a former MacArthur fellow and the author of a number of books, among them Black Culture and Black Consciousness, The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History, Highbrow/Lowbrow, and The People & the President: America's Extraordinary Conversation with FDR . In his book, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), Levine writes about the history of academia as an institution and disputes the claims made by historian Alan Bloom in his book The Closing of the American Mind (interview with Levine about the book).

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