Timothy W. Luke

Timothy W. Luke is a University Distinguished Professor with the Department of Political Science and a core faculty member in the Government and International Affairs Program with the School of Public and International Affairs.  He earned his PhD at Washington University-St. Louis.  His main areas of research are 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, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Fast Capitalism, International Political Sociology, Open Geography Journal, New Political Science, Peace Studies Journal; Sustainable Development, Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary; and the Minnesota review.  He is an Associate Editor of New Political Science, and  a founding editor of Fast Capitalism located at the Center for Theory with the University of Texas.  From 1997-2010, he founded the OLMA-PSCI program working with the Virginia Tech Cyberschool and Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning from 1994-2010.  In addition, he was the founding director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) PhD program from 2003-2005, and Interim Director from 2009-2011.  He has been awarded the W. E. Wine Award for Teaching Excellence; the Alumni Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence; the XCaliber Award for Excellence in Technology-Assisted Teaching and Learning; E-Learning Pioneer Award, Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning, and he is a member of the Academy of Teaching Excellence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also has been recognized three times with Certificates for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science by American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha.

He has been awarded research fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leverhulme Trust, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Carter G. Woodson Institute, the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, 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.  As a grant  reviewer, he reads proposals in political science, sociology, and science studies for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF),  the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences (BA), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Leverhulme Trust, the MacArthur Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),  the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology of New Zealand (MBIE), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).  He also has won the Distinguished Scholar Award, International Studies Association/Science, Technology and Arts in International Relations. (STAIR) Section in 2021 and the Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award, American Political Science Association/New Political Science Section in 2014.

His recent books include:  Shards and Specters of the New World Order: Casting Soviet and Post- Soviet Studies as Critique (Telos Press Publishing, 2023); Joel Jay Kassiola and Timothy W. Luke, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory (Springer Nature, 2023); The Travails of Trumpification.  (Telos Press Publishing, 2021); The Politics of Cyberspace, co-edited with Chris Toulouse (Routledge, 2017); Gun Violence and Public Life, Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, eds. (Routledge/Paradigm Publishers, 2014); Putting Knowledge to Work & Letting Information Play, Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger, eds. (Brill/Sense Publishers, 2012); A Journal of No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical Theory, Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, eds. (Telos Press, 2011); There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech,  Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, eds. (Bloomsbury Publishing/Rowman & Littlefield, 2008); Museum Politics: Powerplays at the Exhibition (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); He also is the author of Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology:  Departing from Marx (University of Illinois Press, 1999); Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy and Culture  (University of Minnesota Press, 1997);  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 Press, 1985); and, Victor T. Le Vine  and Timothy W. Luke, The Arab-African Connection (Westview Press, 1979).