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

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

American Pragmatism and Its History; American and African American Political Thought; Social and Political Philosophy (especially theories
of Democracy and Republicanism)

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

History of Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Identity (Gender and Race)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

The Undiscovered Dewey:  Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy
(Columbia University Press, 2008)
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Review of Book, Jim Garrison, Teacher's College Record, June 24, 2009
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Review of Book, Paul Fairfield, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 6, 2009
*Review of Book, M. E. Bailey, CHOICE, August, 2009: 46-7076
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Review of Book, Shane Ralston, Journal of Politics, Volume 72.1, Jan. 2010
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Review of Book, Robert W. King, Journal of American Studies, Volume 44.1, Feb. 2010

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

"Democracy, Piety, and Faith: A Reading of Dewey's Naturalism," in Secular Faith, eds. Vincent Lloyd and Elliot Ratzman (Eugene, Oregon:
Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Forthcoming)

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

  • Feature Article:  Political Theory Revisited

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

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, Critical Commentaries, and Book Reviews:

Review of Neil Gross, Richard Rorty:  The Making of an American Philosopher.  (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2008),
American Historical Review (Forthcoming)

Review of George Yancy,
Black Bodies, White Gazes:  The Continuing Significance of Race. (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008),
Journal of Speculative Philosophy (Forthcoming)

Symposium on Robert Talisse's A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy
"Dewey, Pluralism, and Democracy:  A Response to Robert Talisse," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society:  A Quarterly Journal in
American Philosophy
45.1 (June, 2009): 75-79

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

PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS:

Conference Roundtable: The Undiscovered Dewey
Participants:  Eric MacGilvray (Chair), Rogers Smith, James Johnson, Robert Taylor
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada June, 2010

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

"The Fact of Sacrifice and the Necessity of Faith: Dewey, Maine, and the Ethics of Democracy"
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, April, 2010
American Studies Conference, Washington, DC, October, 2009
MIT Political Science Work in Progress Colloquia, Cambridge, MA, March, 2009
William and Mary, Political Science Department Colloquia, Williamsburg, VA, April, 2009
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture Colloquia, University of Virginia, April, 2009
University of Oregon, Department of Philosophy, April, 2009

"The Limits of Sympathy:  DuBois, Tocqueville and the Habits of Race Prejudice"
Association for Political Theory Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October, 2008

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

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

The Association for Political Theory
The American Political Science Association
American Philosophical 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
      
Political Studies






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Melvin L. Rogers
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia