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2017-09-03<\/p>\n

On PSNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rogers Smith – President-Elect<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 His BA is from James Madison College, Michigan State University, and his MA and PhD degrees are from Harvard.\u00a0 Trained in the history of political thought and American constitutional law and politics, his scholarship blends empirical and normative concerns focused on the politics of citizenship and identity, especially issues of race, gender and religion in American constitutional development.\u00a0 He is the author or co-author of seven books, including\u00a0Political Peoplehood\u00a0<\/i>(2015) and\u00a0Civic Ideals\u00a0<\/i>(1997), which won the APSA\u2019s Bunche, Easton, and Greenstone awards.\u00a0 He has authored or co-authored over 90 articles in journals and edited volumes, including the\u00a0American Political Science Review<\/i>,\u00a0Journal of Politics<\/i>,\u00a0Studies in American Political Development<\/i>, and\u00a0Political Theory<\/i>.\u00a0 He received the Law and Courts Section\u2019s 2004 Wadsworth Award for his\u00a0APSR<\/i>\u00a0article on \u201cThe \u2018New Institutionalism\u2019 and the Future of Public Law.\u201d\u00a0 Smith has supervised 39 PhD theses and received Penn\u2019s Provost Award for Distinguished PhD Mentoring; Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching; Dean\u2019s Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research, and a Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Prize from Yale, where he taught from 1980 to 2001.<\/p>\n

At Penn he served as department chair from 2003-2006 and is now Associate Dean for Social Sciences. He founded the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism in 2006 and has since directed it.\u00a0 He also co-founded the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, a university-public school partnership.\u00a0 His APSA roles include chair of the Politics and History Section, 2001-2002; program chair of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence, 2001-2002; co-chair of the Task Force on Graduate Education, 2002-2003; member of the Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, 2004-2007; Council Member, 2005-2006; chair of the\u00a0Perspectives on Politics<\/i>\u00a0editor search committee, 2008; Vice President, 2008-2009; member of the Task Force on Public Engagement, 2013-2014; and co-chair of the Migration and Citizenship Section, 2013-2015.\u00a0 He received the Frank J. Goodnow Award in 2010.\u00a0 He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Philosophical Society.<\/p>\n

Statement of Views<\/strong>: I have long championed a discipline that uses plural methods to address major pressing and enduring political questions.\u00a0 I hope to promote an association that is broadly inclusive and responsive, and a profession that aids in the flourishing of all research that advances these ends; that strengthens teaching; and that fights in the public sphere to protect and improve higher education in an era of declining support for honest, innovative scholarship and pedagogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2017-09-03 On PSNow. Rogers Smith – President-Elect Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 His BA is from James Madison College, Michigan State University, and his MA and PhD degrees are from Harvard.\u00a0 Trained in the history of political thought and American constitutional law and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}