Political Science Faculty and Staff
Timothy W. Luke
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Chair, Department 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
Professor Luke's 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, and comparative and international politics. He serves on the editorial board of Capitalism Nature Socialism,Critical Social Policy, Culture and Politics: An International Journal of Theory, e-Learning and Digital Media, the minnesota review, Fast Capitalism, International Political Sociology, Journal of Information Technology and Policy, Organization & Environment, New Political Science, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Peace Studies Journal, and Telos. He is an Associate Editor of New Political Science, and has been the Citation Classics and Foundational Works Editor for Organization & Environment since 1999. He also is a founding editor of Fast Capitalism, located at the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the book line editor of Telos Press Publishing, where he oversees publication of works by Ernst Juenger, Carl Schmitt, Jean-Claude Paye, Paul Piccone, Victor Zaslavsky, and other works of social theory. He also has served as an editorial board member with Environmental Communication, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, International Political Economy Yearbook, Journal of Politics, New Political Science, ultiBase, and Post-Communist Cultural Studies with Penn State University Press.
From 1997-2010, he was Director of Graduate Studies, and he founded the OLMA program on the basis of his work with the Virginia Tech Cyberschool from 1994-2003. He continues to direct the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture that also he developed during the Cyberschool experiment. 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 Austrian Science Fund, and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology of New Zealand.
Recent publications include: "The National D-Day Memorial: Art, Empire, and Nationalism at an American Military Monument," New Political Science, Vol. 32, no. 4, (December, 2010), 547-559; "Symposium - The Rebel's Yell: Mr. Perestroika and the Causes of the Rebellion in Context," PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 43, no. 3, (October, 2010), 729-731 (with Patrick J. McGovern); "Gaming Space: Casinopolitan Globalism from Las Vegas to Macau," Globalizations, Vol. 7, no. 3, (October, 2010), 395-405; "Ephemeralization as Environmentalism: Rereading F. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth," Organization & Environment, Vol. 3, no. 3, (September, 2010), 354-362; "Geoengineering as Global Climate Change Policy," Critical Policy Studies, Vol. 4, no. 3, (July, 2010), 111-126; "Appropriating, Distributing, and Producing Space After 9/11: The Newest Nomos of the Earth?," Spatiality, Sovereignty, and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, ed. Stephen Legg, New York: Routledge, 57-73; "Digital Citizenship," Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology, eds. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope and Karim Gherab-Martin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 83-96; "What is Information? The Neoliberal Turn, Digitalization, and Interdisciplinarity," Transforming Higher Education: Economy, Democracy, and the University, eds. Stephen J. Rosow and Thomas Kriger, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010, 65-80; "Education at the End of Nature: Learning to Cope with Climate Change," Climate Change and Philosophy, ed. Ruth Irwin, London: Continuum, 2010, 109-130; "'Not to be Missed' Weapons of Mass Destruction: Displaying the Enola Gay," Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture, eds. Fraser MacDonald, Rachel Hughes, and Klaus Dodds, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, 65-80; "From 'Am I an American?' to 'I Am an American!' Weber on Citizenship, Identity and Security," International Political Sociology, Vol. 4, no. 1 (March), 80-103; "Power Loss or Blackout: The Electricity Network Collapse of August 2003 in North America," Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails, Stephen Graham, ed., New York: Routledge, 2010, 55-68; "An Apparatus of Answers: Ecologism as Ideology in the 21st Century," New Political Science, Vol. 31, no. 4 (December, 2009), 487-498; "The Arts, Culture, and Civil Society: Power Stations in the Grids of Governance' International Cultural Policies and Power, ed. J. P. Singh, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 29-35; "The Americanization of Critical Theory: The Legacy of Paul Piccone and Telos," Fast Capitalism, 5.1 (August, 2009)
His most recent books are: There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech, Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, eds. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) xi, 263; 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 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 Alta Mira Press; Alt-X Press; Bergin & Garvey; Blackwell; Continuum; Congressional Quarterly Press; Greenwood; I. B. Tauris; University of Kansas Press; Lawrence Erlbaum; 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; Springer; 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; Indian Journal of Political Science; International Relations; International Studies Quarterly; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society; 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; Political Science Review; Quarterly Journal of Ideology; 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; Third World Quarterly; Transformations; and Western Political Quarterly.
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