Book Talk and Conversation with Dr. Melvin L. Rogers
Thursday, February 13, 2025 4pm to 5pm
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2100 Eure Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27106
http://afam.wfu.eduThe Program in African American Studies at Wake Forest University is pleased to host a book talk and conversation with professor and author Melvin Rogers.
This conversation will be moderated by Claire Crawford, Assistant Professor in the Program of African American Studies and Department of Politics, and Daniel Henry, Assistant Professor in the Program of African American Studies and the Program in Leadership and Character.
A reception and book signing will follow. Books will be available for purchase.
About Melvin Rogers:
Melvin Rogers is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Brown University and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University. There, Professor Rogers teaches courses on democratic theory, the history of American and African-American political philosophy, and pragmatism. In his teaching and writing, he pays careful attention to the overlapping themes of character, culture, and politics in nurturing a healthy democratic community. He is one of three co-directors of The Democracy Project at the PPE Center—a Project that promotes the study at Brown of democratic values, norms, cultures, institutions, and practices around the world.
Professor Rogers is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality and the Ethos of Democracy and The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought. He is also the editor of John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, co-editor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History, and co-editor of the Oxford New Histories of Philosophy book series. He received the 2023 James W. C. Pennington Award from Heidelberg University for his scholarship. For his book, The Darkened Light of Faith, he received the Ralph J. Bunche Award, the David Easton Award from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association, and the Best Book Award from the American Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association.
Rogers received his B.A. degree from Amherst College in political science, his M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history from Cambridge, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in political science. Rogers previously served on the faculty of Carleton College, University of Virginia, Swarthmore College, Emory University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
He and his family live in North Carolina.
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