Timothy Luke

Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as Program Chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He received a B.A. with high distinction in Government and English from the University of Arizona in 1972; a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1975; a M.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 1977; and in 1981, a Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University.

His areas of research and teaching specialization include environmental politics and cultural studies as well as comparative politics, international political economy, and modern critical social and political theory. Many articles and book chapters by him on these topics have been published in scholarly journals and books in the United States and abroad. He has been very actively involved with critical theory communities tied to the Frankfurt School, the critique of mainstream social sciences, critical geopolitics, and environmental political theory groups associated with journals like "Capitalism Nature Socialism", "New Political Science", "International Political Sociology", and "TELOS" for many years.

During 1996, he served as 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. In 1994-1995, he was a key organizer of the Virginia Tech Cyberschool, a founder of the [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/index2.html Center for Digital Discourse and Culture] in 1997, and the first Executive Director of the [http://www.iddl.vt.edu/ Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning] at Virginia Tech from 1998 to 2001. As part of these activities, he created the first entirely online MA degree program in political science available in the U.S.A. in the [http://www.psci.vt.edu/ Department of Political Science] at Virginia Tech. He has taught in the past at the University of Arizona, the University of Missouri–Columbia, the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and Washington University.

Works

* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tim/papers.html Tim Luke's Online Papers]
* "Ideology and Soviet Industrialization (Contributions in Political Science)", Greenwood Press, 1985. 283 pp. ISBN 0313238316
* "Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent, and Revolution", Sage Publications, 1990. 278 pp. ISBN 0803938616
* "Shows of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions", Duke University Press, 1992. 264 pp. ISBN 0822311232
* "Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture", University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 272 pp. ISBN 0816628475
* "Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: DEPARTING FROM MARX", University of Illinois Press, 1999. 272 pp. ISBN 0252067290
* "Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition", University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 265 pp. ISBN 0816619891
* "Displaying the Enola Gay, hiding Hiroshima", "Arena Journal" 22 (January 1, 2004), p. 73
* "Vectors of Virtualization", Sage Publications, 2005. 240 pp. ISBN 0761958304

See also

*Telos Press
*Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
*Paul Piccone
*Fordism

External links

* [http://www.telospress.com Telos Press]
* [http://www.coba.usf.edu/jermier/journal.htm Organization & Environment]
* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tim/ Timothy Luke's Website]