Rogers Smith

Rogers Smith

Rogers Smith (born September 20, 1953) is an American political scientist and author noted for his research and writing on American constitutional and political development and political thought, with a focus on issues of citizenship and racial, gender, and class inequalities.

Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and raised in Springfield, Illinois, Smith graduated with a B.A. in political science from James Madison College, Michigan State University in 1974, including study abroad at the University of Kent in England. He attended graduate school at Harvard University, completing his M.A. in 1978 and his PhD degree in government in 1980. Smith taught at Yale University from 1980 to 2001, when he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he is presently the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science.

Smith's writings have received numerous awards. "Civic Ideals" (1997) was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history, and won several awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Organization of American Historians, and the Social Science History Association.

Smith currently chairs the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. He was president of the Politics and History section of APSA for 2001-2002 and served on the APSA Council in 2005 and 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

elect publications

*"Religious Rhetoric and the Ethics of Political Discourse: The Case of George W. Bush." 2008." Political Theory" 36: 272-300.
*"Racial Orders in American Political Development". 2005. "American Political Science Review" 99: 75-92. (with Desmond S. King).
*"Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics". 2004. Cambridge University Press. (edited with Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud).
*"Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Memberships". 2003. Cambridge University Press.
*"The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America". 1999. University of Chicago Press. (with Philip A. Klinkner).
*"Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History". 1997. Yale University Press.
*"Science, Non-Science, and Politics: On Turns to History in Political Science." 1996. In "The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences", ed. T. J. McDonald. University of Michigan Press.
*"Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America." 1993. "American Political Science Review" 87: 549-566.
*"If Politics Matters: Implications for a New Institutionalism." 1992. "Studies in American Political Development" 6(1): 1-36.
*"Liberalism and American Constitutional Law, 2nd ed". 1990. Harvard University Press.
*"Citizenship Without Consent: the Illegal Alien in the American Polity". 1985. Yale University Press. (with Peter H. Schuck).
*"Constitutional Interpretation and Political Theory." 1983. "Polity" l5: 492-5l4.

External links

* [http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=73 University of Pennsylvania Profile]


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