Alan Rogers
Professor Emeritus
Alan Rogers
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: alan.rogers@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara
Research Interests
United States Constitutional and legal history
Department
Biography
Professor Rogers鈥� research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Constitution and American legal history. His most recent book and a cluster of scholarly articles focused on the death penalty in Massachusetts. He is currently working on two projects: the contested intersection of faith healing and the First Amendment; and a history of the anti-vaccination movement from 1721 to 2009, for which he was awarded a New England Regional Consortium Fellowship. The undergraduate and graduate courses Rogers teaches parallel his research interests: 鈥淯.S. Constitutional History, I and II; 鈥淭he U.S. Bill of Rights,鈥� 鈥淭he Death Penalty: USA and EU,鈥� and 鈥淐hurch and State鈥澛�(with Professor James O鈥橳oole). Rogers is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts聽(University of Massachusetts Press, 2008)
- "State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty,"聽Journal of Policy History聽(2008)
- "The Death Penalty and Reversible Error in Massachusetts,"聽Pierce Law Review听(2008)
- Boston: City on a Hill聽(American Historical Press, 2007)
- The Boston Strangler聽(Commonwealth Editions, 2006)
- Murder on Trial, co-authored with Robert Asher and Lawrence Goodheart (SUNY Press, 2005)
- "Thieves, Rogues, and Judges in Early Republican Massachusetts," co-authored with Edward W. Hanson,聽Massachusetts Legal History听(2003)
- "'A long train of hideous consequences': Boston, Capital Punishment and the Transformation of Republicanism, 1780-1805," in James O'Toole and David Quigley, eds.,聽Boston's Histories听(2003)
- "'Success 鈥� At Long Last': The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts, 1928-1984,"聽Boston College Third World Law Journal听(2002)
- "Finish the fight: The Struggle for Women's Jury Service in Massachusetts,"聽Massachusetts Historical Review听(2000)
- "'An anchor to the windward': The Right of the Accused to an Impartial Jury in Massachusetts Capital Cases,"聽Suffolk University Law Review听(1999)
- "Chinese and the Campaign to Abolish Capital Punishment in Massachusetts, 1870-1914,"聽Journal of American Ethnic History听(1999)
- Discovering the Public Interest: A History of the Boston Bar Association, co-authored with Douglas Jones (1993)