Kenneth A. Osgood

Curriculum Vitae

Department of History

Florida Atlantic University Office: (561) 297-2816

777 Glades Road, Box 3091 Email: kosgood@fau.edu

Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 Web: www.fau.edu/~kosgood

HIGHER EDUCATION

Institutional:

Ph.D., History, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2001.

Committee: Professors Fredrik Logevall, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, and Jane Dehart

Dissertation: “Total Cold War: U.S. Propaganda in the Free World, 1953-1960”

M.A., History, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1997

B.A., History, University of Notre Dame, 1994, magna cum laude

Non-Institutional:

Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (Cornell University, 2004)

Intensive Russian, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russia), 1995

Intensive Russian, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1994

EXPERIENCE

Academic:

University College Dublin, Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, 2006-2007.

Florida Atlantic University, Assistant Professor of History, 2001-present

The Mershon Center, Ohio State University, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2004

University of California at San Diego, Lecturer, Department of History, Spring 2001

University of California at Santa Barbara, Graduate Instructor, Writing Program, 1998-1999

University of California at Santa Barbara, Lead Teaching Assistant, Department of History, 1995-1998

Non-Academic:

Center for Cold War Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Associate Coordinator, 1997-1999. Acted as conference coordinator for three academic conferences; planned numerous symposia, lecture series, and workshops; contributed to the authorship of successful external and internal grants applications; maintained website; directed official correspondence and publicity.

U.S. Department of State, Ukraine Desk and Office of New Independent States, Staff Assistant/Intern, Summer 1995.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Current Research:

The Enemy of My Enemy: The United States, Britain, and Iraq since 1958 [research monograph]

Public Diplomacy as International History [edited volume, with Brian Etheridge]

Selling War in the Media Age: The American Presidency and Public Opinion [edited volume]

Books:

Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, February 2006).

The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? Edited with Klaus Larres. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series, forthcoming September 2006).

Journal Articles

“Hearts and Minds: The Unconventional Cold War” [review essay] Journal of Cold War Studies 4:2 (Spring 2002): 85-107.

“Form before Substance: Eisenhower’s Commitment to Psychological Warfare and Negotiations with the Enemy,” Diplomatic History 24:3 (Summer 2000): 405-433.

Other Articles

“Words and Deeds: Race, Colonialism, and Eisenhower’s Propaganda War in the Third World,” in Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L. Johns, eds. Eisenhower, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series, 2006), 3-25.

“‘The Perils of Coexistence: Peace and Propaganda in Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy,” in Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood, eds. The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? , (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series, forthcoming September 2006).

“Waging Total Cold War: Eisenhower and Psychological Warfare,” in Malcolm Muir, Jr. and Mark F. Wilkinson, eds. The Most Dangerous Years: The Cold War, 1953-1975 (Lexington: Virginia Military Institute, 2005), 79-91.

“Propaganda,” in Alexander DeConde, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrik Logevall, eds. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2^nd. ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), 239-254.

“Before Sputnik: National Security and the Origins of U.S. Outer Space Policy,” in Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith, eds. Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years since the Soviet Satellite (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), 197-229.

Book Reviews, Commentaries, and Other Publications:

Review of Depression to Cold War: A History of America from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan by Joseph M. Siracusa and David G. Coleman, Presidential Studies Quarterly 33:4 (December 2003): 934-35.

Commentary on "Playing the CIA's Tune? The New Leader and the Cultural Cold War" by Hugh Wilford, Diplomatic History 27:1 (Winter 2003): 15-34, H-Diplo Discussion Network (September 2003).

Review of War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62 by Dale Carter and Robin Clifton, eds. Journal of Cold War Studies 6:2 (January 2004), 73-75.

Review of William B. Pickett, Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy and Travis Beal Jacobs, Eisenhower at Columbia in The Journal of American History 89:2 (September 2002): 709-11.

Commentary on "Eisenhower and the Berlin Problem, 1953-1954" by David G. Coleman, Journal of Cold War Studies 2:1 (Winter 2000), 3-34, for H-Diplo Discussion Network (September 2000).

Entry on Soviet archives and the origins of the Cold War and Eisenhower’s foreign policy in Robert J. Allison, ed. History in Dispute Volume 2: American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000 (St. James Press, 2000).

Entry on Eisenhower’s foreign policy in Robert J. Allison, ed. History in Dispute Volume 2: American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000 (St. James Press, 2000).

“A Thriving Scene: Cold War History at UCSB,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter, March 1999. With Andrew Johns.

“Planning a Graduate Student Conference,” Perspectives (American Historical Association Newsletter), March 1999. With Andrew Johns.

Conference Papers:

“Words and Deeds: Race, Colonialism, and Eisenhower’s Propaganda War in the Third World,” conference on Eisenhower and the Third World, University of San Diego, March 2003 [invited].

“Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Third World after Stalin,” Culture and International Relations conference, Wittenberg, Germany, December 2002.

“Eisenhower and Psychological Warfare,” conference on "Going to the Brink: The Cold War, 1953-1963," Virginia Military Institute, October 2002 [invited].

“Grassroots Diplomacy: State-Private Cooperation and U.S. Propaganda,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 2002.

“‘You Too Speak for America!’: State-Private Cooperation in Cold War Propaganda Campaigns, 1948-1960,” American Historical Association conference, January 2002.

“Spinning the Friendly Atom: Psychological Warfare, Cold War Culture, and Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Initiative,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 1999.

“Image, Information, and Ideology: Psychological Warfare and Eisenhower’s Cold War,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association conference, August 1998.

“Psychological Warfare and U.S.-Soviet Disarmament Negotiations, 1953-1960,” conference on the Cold War, U.C. Santa Barbara, May 1998.

 “Eisenhower and the Formation of U.S. Outer Space Policy,” NASA History conference on 40^th anniversary of Sputnik, August 1997.

“The Sputnik Panic: Eisenhower and the Space Race, ” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 1997.

Other Academic Presentations:

“Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad,” Miller Center of Public Affairs Forum, University of Virginia, April 2006.

Roundtable Panelist on “The Cold War after Stalin: Perspectives from the New International History,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 2004.

Chair and commentator for panel, “The Cold War at Home,” graduate student conference on the Cold War, George Washington University, April 2004.

“‘The New Diplomacy: Propaganda and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Early 20th Century,” Visiting Scholar Speaker Series, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, October 2003.

“Propaganda and the American Revolution,” lecture at West Virginia University, October 2003.

Roundtable Panelist for symposium on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Stalin’s Death, Library of Congress, March 2003.

Commentator for panel, “The Politics and Diplomacy of U.S. East-Asian Relations,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 2002.

Commentator for panel, “American Culture and Politics,” graduate student conference on the Cold War, U.C. Santa Barbara, May 2002.

“From Propaganda to Conventional Wisdom: U.S. Foreign Policy and the New Diplomacy,” symposium on “The Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy,” Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Washington, DC, June 2000.

PROFESSIONAL

Professional and Honorary Organizations

Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society, Member (1994-present)

Phi Alpha Theta, National Historical Honor Society, Member (1994-present)

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Member (1996-present). Elected officer on governing council, 2000-2002.

American Historical Association, Member (1996-present)

Editorial Responsibilities

Referee for the University of Notre Dame Press (book manuscript, 2003).

Referee for Diplomatic History (four journal articles, 2002-5), The Journal of Cold War Studies (four journal articles, 2002-5), The International History Review (one journal article, 2002), and Peace and Change (one journal article, 2002).

Referee for five World Civilization textbooks (2002-5), one World Civilization course website (2002), four U.S. history survey books (2004-2005); and three short specialized texts (2005).

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

Researcher of the Year Award, winner for College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, 2006.

University Center for Excellence in Writing workshop and grant, Florida Atlantic University, 2004.

Grant from the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace (Columbia University) to attend the Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy held at Cornell University, 2004.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Mershon Center (for the Interdisciplinary Study of International Security and Public Policy), Ohio State University, 2003-4.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation research grant, 2003.

Predoctoral Fellowship, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1999/00 & 2000/01.

Richard Mayberry Award for top graduate student in history, U.C. Santa Barbara, 2000.

Research Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1999.

Brython Davis Research Fellowship, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1999.

Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, 1999.

University of California Regents Fellowship, 1999.

William J. Ellison Prize for outstanding research paper in history, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1998.

Robert Kelley Award for excellent graduate work in public policy history, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1998.

TEACHING:

Teaching Awards Received:

University Award for Excellence in Teaching, Florida Atlantic University, 2004.

Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1999

J. Bruce Anderson Award for excellence in teaching history, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1998

Courses:

Undergraduate:

The United States since 1877

History of Civilization I

Academic Writing I

Diplomatic History of the United States

African-American History since 1900

The Pentagon Papers and Vietnam (Freshman Honors Seminar)

The U.S. and the Middle East

The Cold War

World War II

Spin Doctors: Propaganda in the 20^th Century

The Fifties (Senior Research Seminar)

Graduate:

The Historical Experience (Graduate Historical Methods)

The U.S. and the Middle East (Readings)

U.S. Diplomatic History (Readings)

U.S. Diplomatic History (Research Seminar)

Cold War Media, Culture and Propaganda (Readings)

Directed Independent Research in U.S. Diplomatic History

Study Abroad:

World War II

SERVICE

College and Departmental Committees

College of Arts and Letters Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006

History Department Symposium Committee, 2004-2006

Ethnic Studies Curriculum Committee, 2004-2005

Phi Alpha Theta moderator, 2004-2006

College of Arts and Letters Bylaws Revision Committee, 2002-2003 (Chair)

Graduate Committee, 2002-2003

Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001-2002

Public Lectures and Media Appearances:

Televised lecture on “Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad,” Book TV, C-Span, June 4, 2006.

“Big Ideas and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Interview on Chicago Public Radio (Odyssey), March 24, 2005.

“Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement,” Florida Atlantic University, April 2003.

“Duck (Tape) and Cover: Civil Defense Then and Now,” Boynton Beach, Florida, April 2003.

“Why War, Why Now?” Margate, Florida, March 2003.

“Discussion on Current Affairs,” West Palm Beach, Florida, March 2003.

“The War on Terror,” Boca Raton, Florida, November 2002.

“Biological Warfare in World History,” forum on Bioterrorism, Florida Atlantic University, October 2001.

“Understanding September 11th,” Florida Atlantic University, September 2001.