Melvin L. Rogers
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia
Melvin L. Rogers is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of
Virginia. His research and teaching interests include classical and
contemporary pragmatism, American and African American political
thought, and democratic and republican theory. A native of New York,
he received his B.A. from Amherst College, his M.Phil. from
Cambridge in Political Thought and Intellectual History, and both his
M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University in Political Science. He has held
a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation, was an Exchange
Scholar in the department of Religion at Princeton, and a
Scholar-In-Residence in the department of Political Science at Carleton
College before joining the faculty at UVA.  He is the author of
The
Undiscovered Dewey:  Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of
Democracy
(Columbia UP, 2008).  Additional publications include
articles in
Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of
Political Theory
, and Contemporary Political Theory.

232 Cabell Hall, P.O. Box 400787
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA  22904

Phone: (434) 924-3614
Fax: (434) 924-3359
Email:
mlr2d@virginia.edu
WHAT'S NEW

The Introduction to my book, The
Undiscovered Dewey
, is now available.  
Click on the Book tab above.

My article, "Democracy, Elites, and
Power: John Dewey Reconsidered,"
recently appeared in
Contemporary
Political Theory
, 8.1 (2009): 68-89.