Rate My Professor Maria Rost Rublee

Maria Rost Rublee is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science discipline of the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD from George Washington University, with a dissertation on constructivist explanations for non-nuclear states in a nuclear world. Her career includes Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, History, and Sociology at the University of Tampa from 2004 to 2008, Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Political Studies at the University of Auckland from 2009 to 2011, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University from 2012 to 2015, and her current position at the University of Melbourne. She served as Visiting Fellow at the Australian War College in 2024 and Non-Resident Fellow at the Australian Royal Navy Sea Power Centre from 2022 to 2023.

Professor Rost Rublee's research specializations include nuclear nonproliferation norms, nuclear restraint, international security, maritime security, gender and diversity in security studies, and policy narratives. Her book Nonproliferation Norms: Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint, published in 2009 by the University of Georgia Press, received the Alexander George Book Award. She has produced over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including "The promise of AUKUS: implications of its minilateral institutional form" (2024), "Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars" (2023), "Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Professional Associations: Experiences from Security Studies" (2023), and "Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies" (2020). Rost Rublee has obtained nearly $2 million in competitive grants, nearly $700,000 as sole or lead investigator, from the U.S. Institute of Peace, Australian Department of Defence, Canadian Department of Defence, and Japan Foundation. She is President of Women in International Security-Australia, an Executive Committee member of Women in Nuclear-Australia, and creator of the International Studies Association's Global Taskforce on Diversity in Security Studies. Named to the Center for Strategic and International Studies' U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List (top 50 globally), she contributes to public lectures, media commentary, and policy discussions on nuclear politics, AUKUS, and national security diversity.