“Democratic Faith in Dark Times” will be a meditation on piety, faith, and the transformative potential of self and society.
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.
Rogers has wide-ranging interests in democratic theory and the history of American and African-American political and ethical philosophy. The key figures that shape Rogers’ intellectual outlook include David Walker, Frederick Douglass, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Cornel West and more distantly Martha Nussbaum. 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), and co-editor of Oxford’s New Histories of Philosophy book series. Presently, he is the book review editor for Political Theory. In addition to his academic publications, he has also published on contemporary issues in Boston Review, Dissent, and Public Seminar.
LOCATION: Forum Room, Griffis Hall, MSU campus
Melvin Rogers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Political Science, Brown University
