Emily J. Levine teaches European history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School (University of Chicago Press), which came out in paperback in 2015. She is now at work on a new book, Exceptional Institutions: Cities, Capital, and the Rise of the Research University (under contract, University of Chicago Press). She lives in Durham with her husband.