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Neal Rosendorf
CPD Blog Contributor
Independent scholar in US/international history


Neal M. Rosendorf, Ph.D., a Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy from 2008-2009, is currently an independent scholar of US international history. For well over a decade he has been teaching, writing, lecturing and consulting around the world on subjects related to U.S. foreign relations, public/cultural diplomacy, the cultural dimensions of international relations, and globalization. He has held faculty appointments at Long Island University, the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, as well as a research fellowship at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy. He additionally served for three years as full-time Research Specialist to then-Kennedy School dean Joseph S. Nye.

Dr. Rosendorf has written numerous articles, book chapters, reviews and opinion pieces, which have been published among other places in Diplomatic History, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, the International History Review, the Journal of Cold War Studies, The American Interest, the Foreign Service Journal, the Arizona Republic, the Albuquerque Journal and the Christian Science Monitor; additionally, he is a frequent article contributor to the USC Center on Public Diplomacy website. He has been interviewed or quoted by the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Voice of America, India Today, the Glasgow Herald and the Singapore Straits Times.

Dr. Rosendorf is currently completing two book manuscripts. The first is a monograph on the Franco Regime, US tourism, Hollywood, Madison Avenue and Spanish soft power, 1950-70. The second is a biography of US film producer Samuel Bronston, who built a major motion picture studio in 1960s Spain in close cooperation with the Franco dictatorship. His newest research project is on the BRIC states, culture and soft power in the 21st century, the outgrowth of a series of journal and online articles he has written over the past several years.

Neal Rosendorf earned his doctorate in history at Harvard University in 2000; he received his M.A. from Ohio University in 1991 and his B.A. from Rutgers University in 1987. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Lisa Franklin Rosendorf, the head of communications and government affairs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and their two children.


Current CV



Recent Publications by Neal Rosendorf
July 2011 - Vacation Note: I Go to Rio The American Interest

June 15, 2011 - Israeli PD & Arab Publics II: An Addendum on Leon Wieseltier CPD Blog

March 9, 2011 - Israeli Public Diplomacy’s Longstanding Blind Spot: Arab Publics CPD Blog

November 10, 2010 - Barack Obama's India Trip: The View Through the Soft Power Lens CPD Blog

July 13, 2010 - India Today Interview - Indian Versus Chinese Soft Power CPD Blog

May 6, 2010 - A State's Affairs and Affairs of State: Arizona's Immigration Law CPD Blog


Neal Rosendorf in the News
July 3, 2010 - Rosendorf is quoted in the article, "Slouching Tiger, Racing Dragon," in India Today.


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