Melvin Rogers

Melvin Rogers grew up in New York and was educated at Amherst College, University of Cambridge and Yale University. After holding professorships at the University of Virginia in Political Science, Emory University in Philosophy and 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. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy (2009), editor of John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (2016), co-editor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History (2020) and Oxford University Press’s “New Histories of Philosophy” book series. In addition to his academic publications, Rogers has published on contemporary issues in Boston Review, Dissent, and Public Seminar.