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Nancy Snow is a Fulbright Professor of Public Diplomacy at Panteion University and a Researcher at the Institute of International Relations ΙΔΙΣ, Athens, Greece. She is an Emerita Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. As a global citizen, Snow views the world as her classroom, with many international teaching and research appointments. She taught public diplomacy for six years at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in Japan and strategic communications in the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, Beijing. In 2020, she held the Walt Disney Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman. She is an opinion writer for Nikkei Asia, a senior advisor at Kreab Tokyo, and a strategic communications advisor at the International Security Industry Council (ISIC) Japan. As a Presidential Management Fellow, Snow worked as a cultural affairs and educational exchange specialist at the U.S. Information Agency and refugee and migration specialist at the U.S. State Department. She studied in the Federal Republic of Germany as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Freiburg. She taught American Foreign Policy and American Culture as a Fulbright professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. As the daughter of an MIT-trained electrical engineer, Snow advocates for advancing science and technology research and teaching through arts, humanities, and the social sciences. To that end, she serves on the Advisory Board for the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Foundation to support the sustainable development of Okinawa and deepen U.S.-Japan relations through the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). From 2013 to 2015, Snow was a Social Science Research Council Abe Fellow and Visiting Professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Her Abe Fellowship culminated in a book called "Japan's Information War," also available in the Japanese language as "The Mystery of Japan's Information Power" (Bunshindo 2022). Snow has been a visiting professor at Reichman University's Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy (Israel) and UiTM (Malaysia). She was also a Visiting Associate Professor of Public Diplomacy at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School and a Public Diplomacy faculty member at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. At USC, she was hired as an expert faculty consultant to help establish the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and become its first senior research fellow. Dr. Snow received a doctorate in International Relations (magna cum laude) from the School of International Service (SIS), The American University, in Washington, D.C. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Fulbright Scholars as Cultural Mediators." She graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude) in political science from Clemson University in South Carolina. Snow has published fifteen books and nine additional foreign language translations. Recent publications include the second edition of the "Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy" with Nicholas J. Cull and "The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda" with Paul Baines and Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. She is the lead author of the 8th edition of "Propaganda and Persuasion" with Garth Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell (Sage, 2025). She is under contract with the Naval Institute Press for "Battleship Diplomat: The Enduring Soul of the Mighty Mo."
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