Joel Rogers, Director

Joel Rogers (Ph.D. Princeton, M.A. Princeton, J.D. Yale Law School, B.A. Yale) is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the founder and director of COWS. Joel has written widely on American politics and public policy, political theory, and U.S. and comparative industrial relations, as well as the “high-road” approach he is credited as first theorizing. His most recent books are Working Capital: Using the Power of Labor’s Pensions (Cornell, 2001) and America’s Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (Basic, 2000). A contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, and a social activist as well as an academic, Rogers was recently identified by Newsweek as one of 100 Americans most likely to affect U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.

Email: jrogers at cows.org
Tel: 608.262.4266