EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Political Science, with Distinction,Yale University, December 2006
M.Phil., Political Science, Yale University, May 2004
M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge, October 2000
B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, May 1999

APPOINTMENTS:

Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia

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

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS:

Modern Political Philosophy; Pragmatism; Democratic Theory; American and African American Political Thought;
Republicanism

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

The Undiscovered Dewey:  Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy
(Columbia University Press, Forthcoming 2008)

Edited Volume:

John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, with introduction and interpretive essays in Rethinking the Western Tradition
Series (contract forthcoming from Yale University Press)

•        Confirmed Contributors: James Bohman (Saint Louis University), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Princeton University), Eric
MacGilvray (Ohio State University), and myself

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

"Democracy, Elites, and Power:  John Dewey Reconsidered," Contemporary Political Theory 8 (Forthcoming, 2009)

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

“Republican Confusion and Liberal Clarification,”
Philosophy and Social Criticism, 34.8 (Forthcoming, October, 2008)

Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A 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)

Encyclopedia Entries and Critical Commentaries:

"Dewey, Pluralism, and Democracy:  A Response to Robert Talisse," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society:  A
Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
(Forthcoming)

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

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

Book Projects:

Democratic Excellence:  A Contribution to American Political Thought in Black and White

Essay/Shorter Writing Projects:

"American Pragmatism," Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir, Sage Publications (in progress)

"The Limits of Sympathy:  DuBois, Tocqueville and the Habits of Race Prejudice" (in progress)
Association for Political Theory Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October, 2008; MIT Political
Science Work in Progress Colloquia, Cambridge, MA, March, 2009

"Introduction:  Reading
The Public and Its Problems Today" (in progress for reprint)

"Educating for Democracy:  Pluralism, Affect, and Perfectionism" (in progress for reprint)

PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS:

Invited Paper:  "Two Iterations on a Theme:  Sympathy and Race"
American Philosophies Symposium: Words, Bodies, War, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, April 2008

Invited Conference Paper:  "Dewey and Pluralism:  A Response to Robert Talisse"
Pacific American Philosophical Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, March, 2008

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

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

Panel Discussant:  “The Legacy of Socrates”
Northeastern Political Science Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2005

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

Discussant:  “Between Magnanimity and Humility: A Discussion of Patrick Deneen’s Democratic Faith,”
Political Theory Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

Minority Presence at Liberal Arts College 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

American Political Science Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2001

Keasbey 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

LANGUAGE:

French (reading comprehension)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

The Association for Political Theory
The American Political Science Association
American Philosophical Association
Michael Oakeshott Association   

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Manuscript Reviewer:  

Theoria:  A Journal of Social and Political Theory
Journal of Politics
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
American Political Science Review
Philosophy & Rhetoric
      






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Melvin L. Rogers
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia