NYU Wagner

Rogan Kersh, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, has been a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Policy, a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, and Luce Scholar. His publications include Dreams of a More Perfect Union (Cornell University Press, 2001), a study of U.S. political history; Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and articles and op-ed pieces in numerous academic and popular journals. He is also a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S. political issues.

Prof. Kersh's professional activities include ongoing work with Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, where he was a Distinguished Fellow in 2006, and board memberships of the Critical Review Foundation and Nancy Susan Reynolds Foundation. In 2008 he was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Adminstration. At Wagner, Prof. Kersh is working with Dean Schall, the faculty, and the administration to recruit faculty, develop curriculum, and to attract, train and prepare the next generation of public service leaders who can accomplish sustainable impact on problems of great social importance. He teaches three classes per year while he is Associate Dean and continues his research activities, which currently focus on the politics of obesity and on interest-group lobbying. Prof. Kersh received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale, and his B.A. from Wake Forest University.