Michael Dylan Rogers

Michael Dylan Rogers is a historian, educator and author whose research focuses on modern political thought and philosophies of knowledge. He holds a PhD in history from Cambridge University.

His new book The Pluralism of Order: Physics, Epistemology and Political Thought in Germany and Austria (1914–1945) is currently available from Springer Nature. His work appears in the journal Modern Intellectual Historyand in the SAGE Encyclopedia of War, and has been presented by invitation at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.

He is also co-author of the book Haitian Machete Fencing: The Avril Family Method, which is the result of 20 years of development work and martial-arts training in Haiti. He is featured in the award-winning documentary film Papa Machete, and is co-founder of the nonprofit organization Cultural Capital Haiti.

At PNCA he teaches courses that combine his interests in history, philosophy, politics, and the creative practice of writing. These range from broad historical surveys like Comparative Revolutions and Ancient Civilizations, to explorations of political ideas like History of Capitalism and History of Fascism, to more process-oriented courses like Place-Based Inquiry and Philosophy of Sustainable Design.