Rogers M. Smith

Christopher H. Browne Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Phone: 484-343-0334
rogerss@sas.upenn.edu

School: Arts & Sciences 
General Topic Areas: citizenship and immigration; civil rights and civil liberties; American constitutionalism; American political thought; racial and ethnic politics

Sample Talk Topics or Titles:

• Toward Better Stories of American Identity
• The Crisis of Our Two Constitutions
• Trends and Transformations in American Racial Politics
• America’s Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground
• America’s New Racial Divides: Protect versus Repair

Bio: Rogers M. Smith has been Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn since 2001, after 21 years teaching at Yale. His many publications include Civic Ideals, a 1998 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Smith has been Penn’s Associate Dean for Social Sciences and President of the American Political Science Association. He was founding director of the Penn DCC Program, the forerunner of the Andrea Mitchell Center, and co-founder of the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia. He received five teaching prizes from Penn and Yale. Smith is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Philosophical Society.