Kenneth A. Osgood
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road, Box 3091
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
Home: (561) 243-9377
Office: (561) 297-2816
Email: [email protected]
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:
Intensive Russian, Herzen Pedagogical Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia), 1995
Intensive Russian, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1994
EXPERIENCE
Academic:
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.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Kenneth A. Osgood, Total Cold War: America’s Global Battle for Hearts and Minds in the 1950s
(University Press of Kansas, 2006), 715 manuscript pgs. [peer review].
Kenneth A. Osgood and Klaus Larres, eds. The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A New
International History (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series,
forthcoming, publication expected 2006), approx. 400 manuscript pgs. [peer review].
Refereed Journal Articles
“Hearts and Minds: The Unconventional Cold War [review essay]” Journal of Cold War Studies
4:2 (Spring 2002): 85-107 [peer review].
“Form before Substance: Eisenhower’s Commitment to Psychological Warfare and
Negotiations with the Enemy,” Diplomatic History 24:3 (Summer 2000): 405-433, [peer
review].
Other Publications
“Propaganda,” in Alexander DeConde, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrik Logevall, eds.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd. ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
2001), 239-254, [editorial board review].
“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 [editorial review].
Works Accepted for Publication
“Words and Deeds: Race, Colonialism, and Eisenhower’s Propaganda War in the Third
World,” in Kathryn Statler and Andrew L. Johns, eds. Managing an Earthquake:
Eisenhower and the Globalization of the Cold War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
publication expected 2005), 30 manuscript pages [editorial and peer review].
“‘A New Type of Cold War’: Stalin’s Death and the Challenge of Coexistence,” in Kenneth
A. Osgood and Klaus Larres, eds. The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A New International
History, (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series, completed
manuscript submitted March 2003, publication expected 2005), 28 manuscript pgs.
[peer review].
Conference Papers:
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“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 [refereed
abstract].
“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 [refereed abstract].
“‘You Too Speak for America!’: State-Private Cooperation in Cold War Propaganda
Campaigns, 1948-1960,” American Historical Association conference, January 2002
[refereed abstract].
“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 [refereed abstract].
“Image, Information, and Ideology: Psychological Warfare and Eisenhower’s Cold War,”
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association conference, August
1998 [refereed abstract].
“Psychological Warfare and U.S.-Soviet Disarmament Negotiations, 1953-1960,” conference
on the Cold War, U.C. Santa Barbara, May 1998 [refereed abstract].
“Eisenhower and the Formation of U.S. Outer Space Policy,” NASA History conference on
40th anniversary of Sputnik, August 1997 [refereed abstract].
“The Sputnik Panic: Eisenhower and the Space Race, ” Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations conference, June 1997 [refereed abstract].
Other Academic Presentations:
Roundtable Panelist on “The Cold War after Stalin: Perspectives from the New
International History,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
conference, June 2004 [refereed abstract, panel organizer].
Chair and commentator for panel, “The Cold War at Home,” graduate student conference
on the Cold War, George Washington University, April 2004 [invited].
“‘Regimenting the Public Mind’: The Communications Revolution and the Age of Total
War,” lecture series in international relations, Mershon Center, Ohio State
University, October 2003 [invited].
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“Propaganda and the American Revolution,” lecture at West Virginia University, October
2003 [invited].
Roundtable Panelist for symposium on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Stalin’s Death, Library of
Congress, March 2003 [invited].
Commentator for panel, “The Politics and Diplomacy of U.S. East-Asian Relations,” Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 2002 [invited].
Commentator for panel, “American Culture and Politics,” graduate student conference on
the Cold War, U.C. Santa Barbara, May 2002 [invited].
“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 [invited].
Book Reviews and Journal Article Commentaries:
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).
PROFESSIONAL
Professional and Honorary Organizations
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Member (1996-present). Elected
officer on governing council, 2000-2002.
American Historical Association, Member (1996-present)
Phi Alpha Theta, National Historical Honor Society, Member (1994-present)
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Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society, Member (1994-present)
Editorial Responsibilities
Referee for the University of Notre Dame Press (book manuscript, 2003).
Referee for Diplomatic History (three journal articles, 2002-4), The Journal of Cold War Studies
(three journal articles, 2002-4), The International History Review (one journal article,
2002), and Peace and Change (one journal article, 2002).
Referee for four World Civilization textbooks (2002-4) and one World Civilization course
website (2002).
Honors, Awards, and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Writing Across the Curriculum 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.
Research Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation, 2003.
Sponsored Research Travel Grant, Florida Atlantic University, 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 graduate work in public policy history, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1998.
TEACHING:
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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 (Fall 2001, Fall 2004)
History of Civilization I (Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Spring 2005)
The Pentagon Papers (Spring 2006)
The U.S. and the Middle East (Spring 2006)
Diplomatic History of the United States (Fall 2002)
African-American History since 1954 (Spring 2002)
African-American History in War and Peace (Spring 2001)
The Cold War (Spring 2003, Summer 2005)
World War II (Fall 2001)
Spin Doctors: Propaganda in the 20th Century (Spring 2005)
Senior Research Seminar on the Fifties (Spring 2003, Spring 2005)
Writing Across the Curriculum I (1998-1999)
Graduate:
The Historical Experience, Graduate Historical Methods (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
The U.S. and the Middle East (Summer 2005)
Readings in U.S. Diplomatic History (Fall 2002)
Readings on Cold War Media, Culture and Propaganda (Summer 2002)
Directed Independent Research in U.S. Diplomatic History (Summer 2003)
SERVICE
University Committees:
Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006
College Committees:
Ethnic Studies Curriculum Committee, 2004-2005
Chair of the College of Arts and Letters Bylaws Revision Committee, 2002-2003
History Department Committees:
Phi Alpha Theta moderator, 2004-2005
Symposium Committee, 2004-2006
Graduate Committee, 2002-2003
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Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001-2002
Community Activities:
“Are You Safer Now Than You Were Three Years Ago?” Phi Alpha Theta symposium on
the 2004 election, Florida Atlantic University, October 2004.
“Duck (Tape) and Cover: Civil Defense Then and Now,” guest lecture at Ohio State
University, February 2004.
“Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement,” Phi Alpha Theta symposium on student activism,
Florida Atlantic University, April 2003.
“Duck (Tape) and Cover: Civil Defense Then and Now,” public lecture in Boynton Beach,
Florida, April 2003.
Participated in several interviews with local media (News Channels 5 & 10) about the war in
Iraq, March-April 2003.
Public forum on the U.S. and Iraq, Florida Atlantic University, March 2003 [forum organizer
and panelist].
“Why War, Why Now?” public lecture in Margate, Florida, March 2003.
“Discussion on Current Affairs,” public lecture in West Palm Beach, Florida, March 2003.
“The War on Terror,” public lecture in Boca Raton, Florida, November 2002.
“Biological Warfare in World History,” public forum on Bioterrorism, Florida Atlantic
University, October 2001 [forum organizer and participant].
“Understanding September 11th,” public forum at Florida Atlantic University, September
2001.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Reading Knowledge:
Spanish
Russian