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.
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.” 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.
Year Two (Ibidem Publishers/Columbia University Press)(2025) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-arts-of-war-year-two/9783838219707 Changing Cities, Shifting Stages: How the Performing Arts Reveal Urban Transformation (New Academia Publishers, 2024).
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).
Setting the Agenda (edited with Allison M. Garland and Mejgan Massouri) (2007) 200 let rossiisko-amerikanskikh otnoshenii: naula i obrazovanie.
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).
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).