Michael Levy was political science editor (2000-06), executive editor (2006-11), editor of Britannica Blog (2010-11), and director of product content & curriculum (2011-12) at Encyclopaedia Britannica. He subsequently became director of content for Elevate, a brain-training app for mobile devices.
He also served as a professor of political science (1995-2000) at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Kentucky in international relations and comparative politics; his dissertation was entitled Regional Polarization in British Elections: The Effects of Thatcherism on the Party System, Labour Policies, and the Attitudes of Labour Backbench Members of Parliament.
In 1993 he served as an overseas research assistant in the British House of Commons to Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfied.
He received a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991.
