Melvin L. Rogers

mlr2d@virginia.edu Phone: 434-924-3614

Melvin 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.   His publications include: The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy (Columbia UP, 2008); articles in Philosophy and Social Criticism (September, 2008), Contemporary Political Theory (February, 2009), and European Journal of Political Theory (April, 2009). He is also editor and contributor to a reprint of John Dewey’s 1927 classic work of political theory, The Public and Its Problems, under the Rethinking the Western Tradition Series with Yale University Press (Forthcoming Fall, 2009).

Personal webpage: http://www.melvinlrogers.com