EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, 2007-Present (tenure track)

Swarthmore College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2010-2011

Scholar-In-Residence, Political Science, Carleton College, 2005-2007

EDUCATION

Yale University
Ph.D., Political Science, with Distinction, December 2006
M.Phil., Political Science, May, 2004

University of Cambridge        
M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History, 2000

Amherst College
B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1999

Bowdoin College
1995-1997

PUBLICATION

Book:

The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy
Columbia University Press 2008
•        Reviewed in
Notre Dame Philosophical Review; Teachers College Record; Choice; Journal of Politics;
Journal of American Studies

Articles/Book Chapters (refereed)

“Democracy, Piety, and Faith: A Reading of Dewey’s Religious Outlook”
Secular Faith, eds. Vincent Lloyd and Elliot Ratzman (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock
Publishers, Forthcoming)

"Introduction: Revisiting The Public and Its Problems"
"John Dewey and His Vision of Democracy"
Guest Editor:  Contemporary Pragmatism, "John Dewey and The Public and Its Problems," 7.1 (June, 2010)

“Re-reading Honneth:  Exodus Politics and the Paradox of Recognition”
European Journal of Political Theory 8.2 (April, 2009): 183-206

“Democracy, Elites, and Power:  John Dewey Reconsidered”
Contemporary Political Theory, 8.1 (February, 2009): 68-89
•        Selected for Journal’s Feature Article: Political Theory Revisited Section

“Republican Confusion and Liberal Clarification”
Philosophy and Social Criticism, 34.7 (September, 2008): 799-824

“Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy”
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, 43.1 (2007): 90-115

“Rorty’s Straussianism; Or, Irony Against Democracy”
Contemporary Pragmatism, 1.2 (December, 2004): 95-121

“Liberalism, Narrative, and Identity:  A Pragmatic Defense of Racial Solidarity”
Theory and Event, 6.2 (2002): <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/>

Encyclopedia Entries and Critical Commentaries (unrefereed)

"Review of George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes"
Journal of Speculative Philosophy (Forthcoming)

“Dewey, Pluralism, and Democracy:  A Response to Robert Talisse”
Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society: Quarterly Journal In American Philosophy 45.1 (June, 2009): 75-79.
•        Symposium on Robert Talisse’s
A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge, 2007)

“Republicanism”
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. Ed.  William A. Darity, Jr. 9 vols. (Detroit:
Macmillan Reference USA, 2008): vol. 7, 188-89

PRESENTATION AND TALKS

Author Meets Critics Joint Session Devoted to The Undiscovered Dewey and William James on Ethics
and Faith
(by Michael Slater)
  • America Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October, 2010 (Accepted)
  • Participants: John Stuhr, Stuart Rosenbaum, Randy Friedman

“The People, Rhetoric, and Affect:  On the Political Force of Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk
  • American Political Science Conference, Washington, DC, September, 2010
  • Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, April 14, 2010: Sponsored by Mellon Program, Africana Studies, and
    Government and Legal Studies Department: John Donovan Lecture Fund
  • Affect, Imagination, and Democratic Values Conference, University of Virginia, April, 2010

Roundtable devoted to The Undiscovered Dewey
Annual Canadian Political Science Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 1-3, 2010
Participants:  Rogers Smith, Jim Johnson, Robert Peppermen Taylor, Eric MacGilvray (Chair)

"Pragmatism and Democratic Faith"
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference, Arlington, VA, October, 2009

“The Fact of Sacrifice and Necessity of Faith: Dewey, Maine, and the Ethics of Democracy”
  • American Studies Conference, Washington, DC, October, 2009
  • MIT Political Science Work in Progress Colloquia, Cambridge, MA, March 5, 2009
  • William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, April 3, 2009
  • University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Studies, Charlottesville, VA, April 10, 2009
  • University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 30, 2009

“The Limits of Sympathy:  Grisham, Du Bois, Tocqueville and the Habits of Race Prejudice”
Association for Political Theory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October, 2008

“Two Iterations on a Theme:  Sympathy and Race”
American Philosophies Forum, “Words, Bodies, War,” Nashville, TN, April, 2008

“Dewey, Pluralism, and Democracy:  A Response to Robert Talisse”
Pacific American Philosophical Association Meeting, Pasadena, CA, March, 2008

“Democracy, Elites, and Power:  Dewey Reconsidered”
American Political Science Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September, 2006

“Dewey’s Neo-Aristotelianism”
Political Theory Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, December, 2005

“Faith and Democratic Piety”
Political Theory Workshop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October, 2005

“Rorty, Strauss and Irony”
Northeastern Political Science Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2003

"Liberalism and Identity: A Pragmatic Defense of Racial Solidarity”
New School University Conference, "Crisis and Opportunity: Rethinking the Political," New York, NY,  May, 2002

"Dewey, Democracy, and the Fragility of Deliberation”
American Political Science Conference, San Francisco, CA, September, 2001

"Kant's Categorical Imperative Reconsidered"
Tufts University Annual Graduate Conference on Philosophy, Medford, MA, April, 1999

"The Impact of Racial Discrimination on the Political Participation of Black Americans"
American Political Science Conference, poster session, Boston, MA, September, 1998

PANELS ORGANIZED

Author Meets Critics:  Eddie Glaude’s In A Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black
America
American Political Science Conference, Boston, MA, August, 2008

“Dewey, Power, and Democracy”
American Political Science Conference, Philadelphia, PA, August, 2006

“Dewey Reconsidered”
American Political Science Conference, San Francisco, CA, September, 2001

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts College Fellowship, Swarthmore College, Spring, 2010-2011
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia, Fall, 2010
University of Virginia Summer Grant, Summer, 2008, 2009
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship, 2005-2007
Exchange Scholar, Princeton University, Department of Religion, 2004-2005
John F. Enders Grant, Yale University, Summer, 2005              
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005
Amherst College Memorial Fellowship, 2001-2002; 2003-2004
Ford Predoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2002
Keasbey Foundation Scholarship, University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, 1999-2000
Ralph J. Bunche Fellowship, University of Virginia, Summer, 1998
Andrew Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship, Bowdoin College, 1997-1998

COURSES TAUGHT

Assistant Professor at University of Virginia
Introduction to Political Theory
Survey of American Political Theory
Pragmatism, Religion, and Democracy
Democracy and Its Critics
Independent Research
Honors Core Seminar in Political Theory

Scholar-In-Residence at Carleton
Postmodern Political Thought
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Pragmatism, Religion, and Democracy
American Political Thought

Yale University
Modern Political Theory (TA)
Introduction to Political Theory (TA)

SERVICE

To Discipline

Manuscript Reviewer: European Journal of Political Theory (10); American Political Science Review (09);
Journal of Politics (09); Journal of Speculative Philosophy (09); Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A
Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
(07; 08; 09); Political Studies (09); Philosophy & Rhetoric (08);
Theoria:  A Journal of Social and Political Theory (07)

Member of The Association for Political Theory

Member of The American Academy of Religion

Member of The American Political Science Association

To University of Virginia and Department of Politics

Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, 2009-

Faculty Coordinator, Political Theory Colloquium, 2008-2010

Carter G. Woodson Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, 2008-2009

Discussant, Political Theory Colloquium, 2008

Discussant, Institute for Advanced Studies Fellows Conference, 2008

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Politics, 2007-

African-American Studies Curriculum Committee, Carter G. Woodson Institute: 2007-2010
Melvin L. Rogers
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia