Blair Aldridge Ruble

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Blair Aldridge Ruble
BornDecember 18, 1949
Beacon, NY
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author and Academic
Notable workMuse of Urban Delirium: How the Performing Arts Paradoxically Transform Conflict-Ridden Cities into Centers of Cultural Innovation
Washington's U Street: A Biography [1]
Website www.wilsoncenter.org/person/blair-ruble

Blair Aldridge Ruble (born December 18, 1949) is a non-fiction writer and academic administrator whose work has focused on comparative urban studies as well as Russian and Ukrainian affairs. [2]

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Early life and education

A native of Beacon, New York, Ruble grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he attended public schools.

Career

He served as Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute (1989-2012) and has held a number of other positions at the Wilson Center (1977-1982, 1989-2017) including Vice President for Programs (2013-2017). He also served as Staff Associate at the Social Science Research Council (1985-1989) and Assistant Executive Director of the National Council for Soviet and East European Research (1982-1985). [3]

Ruble graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Highest Honors in Political Science (1971), and received his MA (1973) and PhD (1977) in Political Science from the University of Toronto. He also was in residence at Leningrad State University Juridical Faculty (1974-1975). He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate (2012) from the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv.

He has taught at George Washington University (1983), the University of Paris X, Laboratorie de Geographie Urbaine, Nanterre (2001 and 2002), and Università della Svizzera italiana - Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland (2006) and has lectured internationally. His works have been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Ruble has published in the opinion pages of Newsweek, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Afro-American, and USA Today. His media appearances include ABC News, BBC News International, CBC News: Morning, CBS Evening News, NBC's The Today Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, The Charlie Rose (TV series), Russian NTV Russia News Magazine Itogi, Japanese NHK Morning News, France 24 on television, as well as The Larry King Show Radio, and several Voice of America broadcasts.

He was co-curator – together with Perry Frank, Cory Lee Stowers, and George Koch – of the 2021 exhibition at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library examining the history of street art in Washington, D.C., “ 'Areosouls' Murals for our Times.” https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=314634983475071

Ruble is the author of "The Arts of War: Ukrainian Artists Confront Russia" blog on the Woodrow Wilson Center's "Kennan Institute Ukraine Focus" website .

In 2005, Ruble was among the speakers at the memorial service for George F. Kennan held at the Washington National Cathedral. [4]

Personal life

Ruble and his wife, Sally, live in Washington, DC. [5]

Books

The Arts of War. Ukrainian Artists confront Russia. Year One (Ibidem Publishers/Columbia University Press)(2023) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-arts-of-war/9783838218205

Performing Presence from the Washington Stage (New Academia Publishers, 2021).

The Muse of Urban Delirium: How the Performing Arts Paradoxically Transform Conflict-Ridden Cities into Centers of Cultural Innovation (New Academia Publishers 2017).

Performing Community I-IV: Short Essays on Community, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Performing Arts (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016-2020).

Washington's U Street: A Biography (Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Johns Hopkins Press 2010). [6] [7] [8]

Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv (Woodrow Wilson Press & Johns Hopkins Press 2005). [9]

Second Metropolis. Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Japan. (Woodrow Wilson Press & Johns Hopkins Press 2001). [10] [11] [12] [13]

Money Sings: The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslav (Woodrow Wilson Press and Cambridge University Press 2006). [14] [15]

Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City (University of California Press 1990). [16] [17] [18]

Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s (1981). [19] [20]

Edited volumes

D.C. Jazz: Historical Portraits of Jazz Music from Washington, DC (edited with Maurice Jackson) (2018)

Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide (edited with Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Mejgan Massoumi, Pep Subiros, and Allison Garland) (2010)

Cities after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity (edited with John Czaplicka and Nida Gelazis) (2009)

Migration, Homeland and Belonging in Eurasia (edited with Cynthia Buckley with Erin Hoffmann) (2008)

Place, Identity and Urban Culture: Odesa and New Orleans (edited with Samuel C. Ramer) (2008)

Integration in Urban Communities. Renegotiating the City (edited with Lisa M. Hanley and Allison Garland) (2008)

Global Urban Poverty. Setting the Agenda (edited with Allison M. Garland and Mejgan Massouri) (2007)

200 let rossiisko-amerikanskikh otnoshenii: naula i obrazovanie. Sbornik statei (edited with Alexander O. Chubarian) (2007)

Rebounding Identities. The Politics of Identity in the Russian Federation and Ukraine (edited with Dominique Arel) (2005)

Russia's Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century (edited with Alexander J. Motyl, and Lilia Shevtsova) (2005)

Moskva rubezha XIX i XX stoletii. Vzgliad v proshloe izdaleka (edited with Pavel Ilyin 2004).

Netradytsiini immihranti u Kievi (edited with Olena Brachevskaya, Glina Volosiuk, Olena Malynovs'ka, Yaroslav Pilynsky, and Nancy Popson,) (2003)

Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities (edited with John J. Czaplicka with the assistance of Lauren Crabtree) (2003).

Fragmented Space in the Russian Federation (edited with Jodi Koehn and Nancy E. Popson) (2002).

Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (edited with Michael A. Cohen, Joseph S. Tulchin, and Allison M. Garland) (1996)

Russian Housing in the Modern Age: Design and Social History (edited with William Craft Brumfield) (1993)

A Scholar's Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States: The Academies of Sciences of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, Second Edition (edited with Mark H. Teeter, Robert Mdivani, Viktor Pliushchev, Blair A. Ruble, Lev Skvortsov, Wesley Fisher)(1986)

Trade Unions in Communist States (edited with Alex Pravda) (1986)

A Scholar's Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Union: Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Academies of Sciences of the Union Republics (edited with Blair A. Ruble and Mark Teeter, compiled by Robert Mdivani, Viktor Pliushchev and Vadim Milshtein with the assistance of Viktor Cherviakov and Valerii Osinov) (1985).

Industrial Labor in the USSR (edited With Arcadius Kahan) (1979)

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References

  1. ↑ "Book Review: A New Biography of U Street". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "Local Color: Blair Ruble, 'Washington's U Street: A Biography,' at Busboys and Poets". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Blair A. Ruble". Eurasia Foundation.
  4. ↑ Purdum, Todd S. (2005-04-07). "Memorial for Kennan Recalls Drama of Cold War Tensions". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Cheryl Lewis Hawkins Interviews Blair A. Ruble, UDC-TV BOOKS, JANUARY 22,
  6. ↑ "Wiley on Ruble, 'Washington's U Street: A Biography'". H-Net.
  7. ↑ Matthews, Lopez D. Jr. (January 2013). "Blair A. Ruble, Washington's U Street: A Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 432. Cloth $29.95. Paper $24.95". The Journal of African American History. 98: 171–172. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.1.0171.
  8. ↑ Terry, D. T. (1 September 2011). "Washington's U Street: A Biography". Journal of American History. 98 (2): 606–607. doi:10.1093/jahist/jar336 . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  9. ↑ Lewis, Nathaniel M (January 2008). "Review of Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv". Journal of Historical Geography. 34 (2): 373–375. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2008.01.011 . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  10. ↑ McReynolds, Louise (December 2002). "Blair A. Ruble. Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. (Woodrow Wilson Center Series.) New York: Cambridge University Press. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center. 2001. Pp. xvii, 464". The American Historical Review. 107 (5): 1530–1531. doi:10.1086/ahr/107.5.1530.
  11. ↑ Lees, Andrew (27 December 2004). "Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka". Journal of Social History. 38 (2): 557–559. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0127. S2CID   142926957 . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  12. ↑ Lalande, J.-Guy (2004). "Ruble, Blair A. Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. Washington, DC, and Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 464. Illustrations, bibliography, index. US$34.95 (hardcover)". Urban History Review. 33 (1): 62–63. doi: 10.7202/1015684ar .
  13. ↑ West, James L. (2003). "Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. By Blair A. Ruble. New York: Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. xvii, 464 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $34.95, hard bound". Slavic Review. 62 (2): 391–392. doi:10.2307/3185610. JSTOR   3185610. S2CID   164994248.
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  15. ↑ Wolff, David (1996). "Money Sings: The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl. By Blair Ruble. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. xv, 158 pp". Slavic Review. 55 (1): 210–211. doi:10.2307/2501018. JSTOR   2501018. S2CID   157299923.
  16. ↑ Brumfield, William C. (1 June 1992). "Review: Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City by Blair A. Ruble; Kamennyi ostrov by Vera A. Vitiazeva". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 51 (2): 227–229. doi:10.2307/990729. JSTOR   990729.
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  18. ↑ Cattell, David T. (October 1991). "Blair A. Ruble. Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City. (Lane Studies in Regional Government.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, for the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 1990. Pp. xxvi, 328". The American Historical Review. 96 (4): 1242–1243. doi:10.1086/ahr/96.4.1242 . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  19. ↑ Urban, Michael E. (1983). "Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s. By Blair A. Ruble. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 189". American Political Science Review. 77 (3): 789–791. doi:10.2307/1957321. JSTOR   1957321. S2CID   151623386.
  20. ↑ Granick, David (1983). "Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s. By Blair A. Ruble. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. viii, 158 pp". Slavic Review. 42 (1): 125–126. doi:10.2307/2497468. JSTOR   2497468. S2CID   164323183.
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