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Melvin Rogers grew up in the Bronx and was educated at Amherst College, Cambridge, and Yale University. After holding professorships at University of Virginia in Political Science, Emory University in Philosophy, and the UCLA in Political Science and African American Studies, he joined Brown University as Associate Professor in Political Science. He also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for Political Science.
Rogers has interests in democratic theory and the history of American and African-American political philosophy. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy (2008), editor of John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (2016), co-editor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and co-editor of Oxford's New Histories of Philosophy book series. In addition to his academic publications, he has also published on contemporary issues in Boston Review, Dissent, and Public Seminar.
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Melvin Rogers grew up in the Bronx and was educated at Amherst College, Cambridge, and Yale University. After holding professorships at University of Virginia in Political Science, Emory University in Philosophy, and the UCLA in Political Science and African American Studies, he joined Brown University as Associate Professor in Political Science. He also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for Political Science.
Rogers has interests in democratic theory and the history of American and African-American political philosophy. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy (2008), editor of John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (2016), co-editor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and co-editor of Oxford's New Histories of Philosophy book series. In addition to his academic publications, he has also published on contemporary issues in Boston Review, Dissent, and Public Seminar.
Brown University Research Page