Rate My Professor W. Rutkowski

Rutkowski’s research focuses on international history, particularly Cold War dynamics in Asia—including diplomacy in Indochina, the 1954 Geneva Accords, Soviet Bloc-Asia interactions, and the interplay of Cold War and decolonization in Southeast Asia—blending history, international relations, and development studies. His empirical, archive-driven scholarship examines diplomacy, peacekeeping, development models, and nation-building. Key publications include the co-edited book The Malayan Emergency in Film, Literature and Art: Cultural Memory as Historical Other (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), the article “Teaching the International Political Economy (IPE) of everyday life through global groupwork” (Review of International Political Economy, 2025), chapters “Expanding the area of peace: India and the Geneva Conference of 1954” (2022) and “Reassuring Comrades and Courting the Nonaligned: Poland, the 1957 Goodwill Tour in Asia, and the Post-October Diplomacy” (2018). Awards encompass the NUS Fellow (Southeast Asia, 2023), Png Poh Seng Prize for Best Graduate Student in History (2012), and Visiting Fellowship at IDSA (2015). He has presented public lectures, such as “Vietnam War (1945-1965): The Communist Perspective” (2023), organized workshops, peer-reviewed publications, and provided media commentary. His contributions support UN SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, and he accepts PhD supervision.