Timothy Luke

Who is 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.