Nancy Snow (academic)

Snow graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science from Clemson University.[4] After graduation, she lived for a year as a Fulbright Scholar in the Federal Republic of Germany. She was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Snow holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service (SIS) where she concentrated in international/intercultural communication, peace and conflict resolution studies, and U.S. foreign policy.[1][5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Fulbright Scholars as Cultural Mediators.”

While in the doctoral program at SIS, Snow worked with Abdul Aziz Said to establish the International Peace and Conflict Resolution graduate program at SIS. Her first undergraduate course as a Professorial Lecturer in the School of International Service was Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution taught during the military build-up to the Gulf War. She later taught International Communication and Intercultural Communication as an SIS Adjunct Professor and worked closely with academic mentors George Gerbner and Herbert Schiller.

Snow was born in the Deep South of the United States and grew up in the Bible Belt. She received part of her high school education at Bob Jones Academy on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. Her Southern Christian heritage has influenced her scholarly interests. She references her religious and geographical heritage in her 2007 book, The Arrogance of American Power, dedicated to her Alabama-born father, Victor Snow, who served aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in 1946.

From 1992 to 1994, Snow completed the two-year Presidential Management Fellows Program at the United States Information Agency and United States Department of State. Subsequently, she published her first book, Propaganda, Inc., in 1998 that provided a critical perspective of the public diplomacy and propaganda policies of the Bill Clinton administration.

Snow began her academic career in 1995 as Assistant Professor of Political Science at New England College, (NEC) where she remained for five years. While at NEC, she hosted numerous presidential candidate visits, including John McCain and Paul Wellstone.

In 2000 she moved to Southern California, where she was appointed Associate Director of the Center for Communications and Community at the University of California, Los Angeles. A year after 9/11, she returned to full-time academic teaching and research as Assistant Professor of Communications at Cal State Fullerton until her retirement as Full Professor in 2014. In 2015 President Mildred Garcia named Snow Professor Emeritus of Communications.

Snow has served on the teaching faculty and/or as a research scholar at the following academic institutions: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; Tsinghua University; Schwarzman College; Syracuse University; S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy.

Snow has presented over 200 sponsored lectures all over the world, including the University of British Columbia, King’s College London and Wilton Park, United Kingdom; CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Valencia, Spain; Seoul National University, Ewha Womans University, Jeju Peace Forum, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Seoul, South Korea; American Chamber of Commerce Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

In 2015 she was appointed by the chancellor at the recommendation of the president to serve in a special distinguished faculty appointment as Pax Mundi (“World Peace”) Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. She is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), Temple University, Japan Campus.

Snow’s pivot to Asia began with a 2012 Fulbright Professorship at Sophia University and as a Social Science Research Council Abe Fellow, which included a visiting research professorship (2013–2015) at Keio University. The Abe Fellowship led to the publication of Japan’s Information War, a set of critical essays about Japan’s challenges in the 3Gs of Gender, Globalization and Generation. She now divides her time between the United States and Japan.

From 1997 to 2000 Snow was executive director and media spokeswoman for Common Cause in New Hampshire. She was also co-chair of College Convention 2000. She worked with George Gerbner at the Cultural Environment Movement as vice-president and member of the board of directors. She provided media consultation at the 2000 Shadow Conventions in Los Angeles and Philadelphia organized by The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington.

Snow is a frequent broadcast media commentator to international media such as BBC World News and opinion writer to a variety of media, including The Guardian,[6] The Japan Times,[7] The Diplomat,[8] and The Huffington Post[9] and has been interviewed by The New York Times,[10] CNN,[11] The National Post,[12] among many others. She is a lifetime member of the Fulbright Association and Public Diplomacy Association of America.

• Paul Baines (academic), Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, and Nancy Snow, eds. (2020). The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda. ISBN 9781526459985
• Nancy Snow and Nicholas J. Cull, eds. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy. 2nd Edition. ISBN 9781138610873
• Nancy Snow (2016). Japan’s Information War.
• Nancy Snow, co-editor. (2015).The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations. ISBN 9781138212077
• Nancy Snow (2013). Truth is the Best Propaganda: Edward R. Murrow’s Speeches in the Kennedy Years. Miniver Press.
• Nancy Snow and Philip M. Taylor, eds. (2009). Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy. 1st Edition. ISBN 9780415953023
• Nancy Snow, ed. (2014). Propaganda and American Democracy. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807154144
• Nancy Snow (2011). Citizen Arianna: The Huffington Post/AOL Merger: Triumph or Tragedy? Nimble Books.
• Nancy Snow (2009). Persuader-in-Chief: Global Opinion and Public Diplomacy in the Age of Obama. Nimble Books.
• Nancy Snow (2007). The Arrogance of American Power: What U.S. leaders Are Doing Wrong And Why It's Our Duty to Dissent. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742553743
• Nancy Snow (2010). Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World. 3rd edition. New York: Seven Stories Press.
• Nancy Snow. (2004). Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control since 9/11. New York: Seven Stories Press.
• Nancy Snow, co-editor. (2004). War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield. Foreword by Ben Bagdikian