Dean Alfange Jr. Lecture in American Constitutionalism: Tuesday, March 24th at 4:00pm

The Dean Alfange Jr. Lecture in American Constitutionalism will take place on Tuesday, March 24th at 4 pm in the Great Hall of the Old Chapel. This years speaker is Dr. Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His lecture is entitled "America's Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground.”

Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of many articles and nine books, most recently America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair (2024) with Desmond King. His book Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, won six book prizes and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. In 2025 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Political Thought Section of the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a former president of the American Political Science Association.