Johns Hopkins University seeks the next Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute , an effort to address the deterioration of civic engagement in democracies worldwide and restore open and inclusive discourse that is the cornerstone of healthy democracies.

Established in 2017 with a seminal $150 million grant from SNF and housed in the University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Institute serves as a leading academic and public forum bringing together experts from a range of fields— including political science, sociology, history, public health, and international studies—to examine democratic erosion and design and test mechanisms for improving dialogue, social engagement, and democratic governance.

With ideological gaps wider today than at any point in recent history, the Institute’s second director will have an extraordinary opportunity to continue building this center for analysis, experimentation, and dialogue when such efforts a...