Duquesne University Professor Dies In New Jersey Truck Accident

PITTSBURGH, PA - A Duquesne University political science professor who spent the majority of her career alongside her husband died Tuesday after being hit by a cement truck in Princeton, New Jersey. Leslie Goodrich Rubin, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

Rubin for years worked alongside her husband, Charles Rubin, a longtime Duquesne University instructor, who had taken a visitor professorship for the academic year at Princeton University through the James Madison Program, according to nj.com.

The couple met while in a political theory program at Boston College, according to the Duquesne Duke, the university's school newspaper. They got married in 1981, then began their careers together at Kenyon College. They both transferred to Duquesne in 1987, and had two children together.

“She enriched the whole university, especially the Political Science Department,” said Dr. Clifford Bob, the chair of Duquesne's political science department. “Students got a great deal from her classes.”

Rubin’s area of expertise was American Political Development and Political Philosophy, where she related ancient thinkers such as Aristotle to the Founding Fathers and Constitutional thinkers.

She wrote on Aristotle’s “Politics,” Xenophon’s “Education of Cyrus,” and Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge.”

No charges have been filed against the driver of the truck. Princeton police said the investigation is ongoing.

Reporting by Anthony Bellano. Photo via Associated Press.