Nancy Snow, a resident of Tokyo, holds a special faculty appointment as Pax Mundi (“Distinguished”) Professor of Public Diplomacy, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Snow was a Visiting Professor and Abe Fellow at Keio University (2013-2015) where she conducted research on Japan’s image and reputation since 3/11. In 2012 she was Fulbright lecturer in U.S. Foreign Policy and American Culture at Sophia University. An author or editor of twelve books, she is Professor Emeritus of Communications at California State University, Fullerton.
Snow received her Ph.D. in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service in Washington, D.C. She is an alumna of the Presidential Management Fellows Program at the Department of State and the United States Information Agency.
Her latest co-edited books are The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda (2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy (2020). Her Abe Fellowship book, Japan’s Information War, will be released in Japanese in 2020 by Bunshindo.
Snow has held visiting faculty appointments in media and diplomacy at USC Annenberg; Syracuse University Newhouse School; IDC-Herzliya Lauder School in Israel; UiTM in Malaysia; and Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication in Beijing, China. She has given over 200 invited lectures around the world and nearly 600 media interviews. In 2020 she holds the Walt Disney Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.