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Phone: (413) 585-3535
Building: 10 Prospect Street, #302; Hours: W 11-12 & Th 3:15-4:30
E-mail: truback@smith.edu
 Timothy
Ruback arrived at Smith College in the fall of 2008. Prior to that, he received his
BA in political science from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He earned his MA and
Ph.D. in Political Science (specializing in international relations) from Arizona State
University, Tempe. While at ASU, he taught courses focusing on subjects like international
relations theory, international conflict, global terrorism, cosmopolitanism and human
rights. He also served as an academic adviser in the Political Science department and
as the associate director of the Institute
for Qualitative and Multi-method Research.
In his research, he is primarily interested in how those
who think and write about international politics circumscribe, authorize, and limit
what can legitimately be understood as the subject of international politics, and how
those decisions about what to include and exclude can be made to seem as if they were
beyond politics. Substantively, he is currently working on a book manuscript that addresses
these concerns in the context of how international relations scholars interpret Thucydides’ history
of the Peloponnesian War. He is also researching the history of militarized cross-border
manhunts at the U.S.-Mexico border (including the 1916 Punitive Expedition’s
quest for Pancho Villa) in order to explore the way legal precedent -- and the
concept of “unprecedentedness” -- serves
to legitimate this class of military action.
For all you’d want to know -- and
more -- about his teaching and research,
you can visit his Web site.
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