Professor Tucker has been IMESS Fellow at the University of Tartu (Estonia); Grantee of the Gvirtzman Memorial Foundation (Prague) when he taught at Charles University and CEVRO College; Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Queens’ University, Belfast; Research Associate, Social and Political Theory and Philosophy program, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; Research Associate, Editor & Adjunct Professor, New York University; Visiting Professor, Long Island University; Visiting Professor, Trinity College; Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University; Assistant Professor, Palacky University (Czech Republic); Research Fellow, The Prague Central European University; and Lecturer and Teaching assistant, University of Maryland.

A contributor to numerous volumes and encyclopedias, his books include The Legacies of Totalitarianism, Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography, The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence: From Patocka to Havel, and A companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. His articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities; History Today; The Independent Review; Science, Technology, & Human Values; Philosophia: The Philosophy Journal of Israel; Public Administration Review; Political Studies; Perspectives on Science; Scientia Poetica; History and Theory; Critical Review; International Educator; International Studies of Philosophy; East European Constitutional Review; Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies; Explorations in Knowledge; Journal of Applied Philosophy; Telos; and History and Theory. And his popular articles have appeared in the Prague Post, Times Higher Education, Budapest Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Houston Post, and Jerusalem Post.