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)
“The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk”
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”
“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 |
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| Melvin L. Rogers Assistant Professor of Politics University of Virginia |
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