| 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. |