Department of Politics and International Relations
Dr Ed Rooksby
Associate Lecturer
Profile
Biography
Announcement
The Department of Politics is deeply saddened to announce that Dr Ed Rooksby, Associate Lecturer, has passed away.
Ed was awarded a PhD in political theory at the University of York in 2008 and returned to York in September 2019 to take up a post as Associate Lecturer. Ed was a wonderful colleague and outstanding teacher who will be remembered for his kindness, his passion for teaching, and his immense intelligence.
Ed was a most talented thinker and writer. His new book which set out a creative rethink of socialist strategy was a work of love and thorough scholarship. His pieces in political magazines such as Jacobin and his own blog were knowledgeable, learned, wise, and urgent. For Ed, socialist political theory was beyond a mere academic pursuit - it represented a lifelong commitment to the pursuit of justice.
Everyone in the Department of Politics is shocked and saddened by the untimely departure of such an all-round good man. Ed will be deeply missed by all of us.
Prof Nina Caspersen
Head of Department
Career
I was awarded a PhD in political theory at the University of York in 2008 and returned to York in September 2019 to take up a post as an Associate Lecturer. In between I lectured and taught across a range of social science disciplines - including political theory, sociology and economic history - at several different universities in the UK. I have taught previously at the University of Southampton, the University of Portsmouth, Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett) and, most recently, from 2012 to 2019 I was Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College in Oxford.
I am particularly interested in Marxism and socialist political theory more broadly. My main research focus at the moment is on the preparation of a monograph on historical and current theoretical debates in relation to socialist and social democratic strategy.
Beyond my academic writing, I publish frequently in political magazines such as Jacobin and on my blog.
