Nancy Snow is a scholar, professor, and author, with a special interest in how America exercises its soft power and national image in the world. Her research and teaching specialties are global communications, political communications, and persuasive communications. Dr. Snow is Associate Professor of Public Diplomacy in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. She held previous academic positions as tenured Associate Professor in the College of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, and Adjunct Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. In fall 2007, Dr. Snow was a Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing, China, where she taught a graduate course in public diplomacy, persuasion, and propaganda.
Her books include the October 2008 book, Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, (with Philip M. Taylor); Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America’s Culture to the World (Seven Stories Press, 2002), available in Farsi, Japanese, and Portuguese translation; Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11 (Seven Stories Press, 2004), available in Japanese and forthcoming in Chinese translation; and The Arrogance of American Power: What U.S. Leaders Are Doing Wrong and Why It’s Our Duty to Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). She was also editor with Yahya Kamalipour of War, Media and Propaganda: A Global Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. In addition to her books, Snow has written seventeen chapters for books, seventy-five print and online articles, including op-eds in Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, and twenty-five journal articles and reviews in peer reviewed publications. Her most recent journal article is “International Exchanges and the U.S. Image,” in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, (March 2008). Nancy Snow has appeared in the mass media over 300 times, including on ABC News, Al Jazeera English, AP, BBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, New York Times, Sky News, Voice of America, and the Washington Post. Her film appearances include The Brothers Warner, War is Sell and “Decoding the Past: Nazi Prophecies” for The History Channel.
Snow received her Ph.D. in International Relations (magna cum laude) from the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C., and B.A. in Political Science (summa cum laude) from Clemson University, South Carolina. She was a Graduate Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at UC-Berkeley. A Fulbright Scholar to Germany, she completed graduate study in German and Political Science at the universities of Regensburg, Bayreuth, and Freiburg.