Rogan Kersh
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy

Rogan Kersh is currently Provost of Wake Forest University.  He 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.  In 2008 he was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Adminstration.

His research focuses 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.