Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS).

Dr. Smith is associate dean for the social sciences in Penn Arts & Sciences and has a secondary appointment in Penn’s Graduate School of Education. He studies constitutional law, American political thought and modern legal and political theory, with special interests in questions of citizenship, race, ethnicity and gender. In 2006, he founded the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship & Constitutionalism, which he has since chaired. He also co-chairs the Advisory Council of the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, a collaboration between Penn and the School District of Philadelphia.