Deputy Managing Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Expertise: Faculty life | Scholarly publishing | Trends in the humanities and social sciences
Background: As a deputy managing editor, Ruark works with editors and reporters in all sections of The Chronicle of Higher Education, focusing on feature stories and articles for The Chronicle Review about intellectual life. She also writes occasionally for both publications.
From 1998 to 2003, Ruark was senior editor of the Research section, where she managed a team of reporters covering scholars’ research and the business of university presses. Her own articles included stories on architecture, history, literary studies, psychology, and publishing. She joined The Chronicle in 1996 as an assistant editor in the Opinion section, commissioning essays from academics and freelance intellectuals.
Ruark’s stories for The Chronicle have been reprinted in newspapers all over the world. She has led a journalism workshop at the University of Pennsylvania and has been an invited panelist at meetings of the Pew Forum on Religion and Modern Life, the Modern Language Association, and Washington Book Publishers.
Before coming to The Chronicle, Ruark spent three years as an acquiring editor at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in French from Swarthmore College and a master’s in English from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Between college and graduate school, she spent a year teaching English in the public school-system in Iwata, Japan, and two years as a reporter covering environmental policy.
