Name Rogers Smith | Role Political Scientist | |
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Books Civic Ideals, Stories of Peoplehood, Still a House Divided, The Unsteady March: Th, Liberalism and American | ||
Rogers smith and danielle allen liberalism public private spheres and critical race theory
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.
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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 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 and is Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He was president of the Politics and History section of American Political Science Association (APSA) for 2001–2002 and served on the APSA Council in 2005 and 2006. He was co-president of the Migration and Citizenship section of APSA from 2013 to 2015. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004; a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2011; and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016. Smith became President-Elect of the American Political Science Association in 2017-2018.