Dr. Michael Rogers

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

EDUCATION HISTORY

  • BS-Wabash College
  • MA-SUNY at Albany 
  • PHD-SUNY at Albany

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Dr. Michael T. Rogers is a professor of political science in the History and Political Science Department at Arkansas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. and Masters in political science from the University at Albany –SUNY in 2005 and his bachelors from Wabash College in Indiana. Dr. Rogers’s research interests include civic education and engagement, as well as the history of political thought, and democratic theory. He has published several journal articles and book chapters (see below). Dr. Rogers current research and writing is on the Anti-Federalists and their criticisms of presidential selection and the Electoral College, which has been funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)—believed to be the first NEH grant received by an ATU faculty member in more than 40 years. Dr. Rogers currently serves on the executive board for Political Science Education, a section of the American Political Science Association. He is also on the executive board of the Arkansas Political Science Association, as well. 

Dr. Rogers is the faculty liaison to The Washington Center, facilitating opportunities for ATU students to study and intern in Washington, D.C.

 

Rogers, Michael T. (2023) “The Extra-Curricular Teacher-Scholar: Funding Undergraduates to Be Research Assistants,” in Aligning Teaching and Research: Work Smarter, Not Harder. Political Pedagogy Series, Palgrave Macmillan.

Rogers, M. (2021). A Career-Oriented Approach to Structuring the Political Science Major. PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(2), 387-393. doi:10.1017/S1049096520001791

Rogers, Michael T.  “The History of Civic Education in Political Science:  The Story of a Discipline’s Failure to Lead.”  In Teaching Civic Engagement across the Disciplines.  American Political Science Association, 2017 (73-96).

Rogers, Michael T.  “Introduction: A Tocqueville Inspired Assessment of America’s Twenty-First Century Civic Ecology.” In Civic Education in the 21st Century:  A Multidimensional Inquiry.  Lexington Books, 2015 (ix-xxx).

Rogers, Michael T.  “A Meta-History of Formal Civic Education:  An Episodic History to be Repeated?” In Civic Education in the 21st Century:  A Multidimensional Inquiry.  Lexington Books, 2015 (3-42).

Gooch, Donald M. and Michael T. Rogers.  “Dude, Where’s the Civic Engagement?  The Paradoxical Effect of Civic Education on the Probability of Civic Participation.”  Civic Education in the 21st Century:  A Multidimensional Inquiry.  Lexington Books, 2015 (295-344).

Rogers, Michael T. “A Civic Education Crisis.” Midsouth Political Science Review.  Volume 13, No. 1, 2012, pp. 77-1-36.

Gooch, Donald M. and Michael T. Rogers.  “A Natural Disaster of Civic Proportions:  College Students in the Natural State Fall Short of the Naturalization Benchmark.” Midsouth Political Science Review.  Volume 13, No. 1, 2012, pp. 53-82.

Rogers, Michael T. “’A Mere Deception–a Mere Ignus Fatus on the People of American’: Lifting the Veil on the Electoral College.” In Electoral College Reform: Challenges and Possibilities, edited by Gary Bugh: Ashgate, 2010.

Friedman, Sally & Michael T. Rogers. “The Local-National Connection and the Representation of Minorities,” in Dilemmas of Representation: Local Politics, National Factors, and the Home Styles of Modern U. S. Congress Members. SUNY Press, 2007.

Recently Taught Courses

  • HIST 6891 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
  • POLS 2003 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
  • POLS 2513 - RESEARCH DESIGN
  • POLS 3033 - AMER STATE/LOCAL GOVT
  • POLS 3083 - POL PARTIES/INT GROUPS
  • POLS 4971 - INTERNSHIP
  • POLS 4976 - INTERNSHIP
  • POLS 4993 - SPEC PROB/POLSC