Political Science Faculty and Staff
Timothy W. Luke
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Program Chair, Government and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs
Ph.D., Washington University-St. Louis, 1981
Ph.D., Washington University-St. Louis, 1981
His areas of research include environmental politics and cultural studies as well as comparative politics, international political economy, and modern critical social and political theory. He teaches courses in the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, comparative and international politics. He serves on the editorial board of Capitalism Nature Socialism , Culture and Politics: An International Journal of Theory , Environmental Communication , Fast Capitalism , International Political Sociology , International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Journal of Information Technology and Policy , Organization & Environment, New Political Science, Current Perspectives in Social Theory , and Telos . He has been the Citation Classics and Foundational Works Editor for Organization & Environment since 1999, and he is a founding editor of Fast Capitalism located at the Center for Theory with the University of Texas. He is the book line editor of Telos Press Publishing, where he oversees publication of works by Carl Schmitt, Jean-Claude Paye, Paul Piccone and other works of social theory. He also has served as an editorial board member with International Political Economy Yearbook , Journal of Politics, ultiBase, and Post-Communist Cultural Studies with Penn State University Press. He has been awarded fellowships and grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Carter G. Woodson Institute, the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the Department of State, and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Research/Teaching Award). During 1996, he was named Visiting Research and Teaching Scholar at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and in 1995 he was the Fulbright Professor of Cultural Theory and the Politics of Information Society at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has reviewed grant proposals in political science, sociology, and science studies for the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology of New Zealand.
Recent publications include Timothy W. Luke, "The Insurgency of Global Empire and the Counterinsurgency of Local Resistance: New World Order in an Era of Civilian Provisional Authority," Third World Quarterly , Vol. 28, no. 2 (2007), 419-434; "Alterity or Antimodernism," Telos , 137 (Winter 2006), 131-142; "9.11.01 and Its Global Aftermath: Empire Strikes Back," Current Perspectives in Social Thought , 24 (2006), 229-257; and, "Resampling Core Concepts: Doubts About Common Knowledge for Information Technology," International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Vol. 1, no. 4 (2006), 27-36 ; as well as "Finding New Mainstreams: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Political Science in the United States," Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method , ed. Sanford Schram, New York: New York University Press, 2006. 252-268; "The Politics and Philosophy of E-Text: Use Value, Sign Value, and Exchange Value in the Transition from Print to Digital Media," Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practice , ed. Cushla Kapitzke and Bertram C. Bruce. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. 197-210; "The Museum: Where Civilizations Clash or Clash Civilizes?," Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century , ed. Hugh H. Genoways. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press, 2006. 19-25; "On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism, The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living , ed. Nora Haenn and Richard R. Wilk. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 257-269; and, "Technology and Culture in Online Education: Critical Reflections on a Decade of Distance Learning," International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments , ed., Joel Weiss et al. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. 653-671.
His most recent books are: Museum Politics: Powerplays at the Exhibition (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology : Departing from Marx (University of Illinois Press, 1999), The Politics of Cyberspace , co-edited with Chris Toulouse (Routledge, 1998), and Ecocritique : Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
He also is the author of four other books, including Shows of Force : Politics, Power, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions (Duke University Press, 1992); Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent and Revolution (Sage, 1990); Screens of Power : Ideology, Domination and Resistance in Informational Society (University of Illinois Press, 1989); Ideology and Soviet Industrialization (Greenwood, 1985); and, co-author with Victor T. Le Vine of The Arab-African Connection (Westview Press, 1979).
Other writings by him have been published in numerous edited books with Alt-X Press, Bergin & Garvey, Blackwell, Congressional Quarterly Press, Greenwood, University of Kansas Press, Lexington Books, Manchester University Press, Michigan State University Press, University of Minnesota Press, MIT Press, New York University Press, Palgrave, Pearson Education, Pergamon, Prentice Hall, Oxford University Press, Lynne Rienner, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, Rutgers University Press, Sage, State University of New York Press, Telos Press, and Yale University Press, among others and such journals as Alternatives , American Political Science Review , Annals of the Association of American Geographers , AntePodium , ARENA Journal , Art Journal , Art Papers , The Australasian Journal of American Studies , Babylone , Capitalism Nature Socialism , Critical Studies in Mass Communication , Cultural Critique , Cultural Values , Current Perspectives in Social Theory , Democracy & Nature , The Ecologist , Educational Philosophy and Theory, Environment and Planning A , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , Fast Capitalism , Fifth Estate , Geopolitics , Hermes: Revue Critique , History of European Ideas , History of Political Thought , International Relations , International Studies Quarterly , Journal of Social Philosophy , Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare , Journal of Politics , Leviathan , New Political Science , Organization & Environment , Political Crossroads , Political Geography , Philosophy of the Social Sciences , The Public Historian , Research in Political Sociology , Review of International Political Economy , Review of Politics , SITES , Social Research , Social Science Computer Review , Social Science Journal , Sociological Forum , Soviet and Post-Soviet Review , Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture, Politics , Studies in Comparative Communism , Studies in Comparative International Development , Studies in Political Economy , Sustainable Development , Telos , Theory & Event , Transformations , and Western Political Quarterly .
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