BRICs, Culture and Soft Power
International Governance Speakers Series
Neal M. Rosendorf, Ph.D., is 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 the cultural dimensions of international relations, cultural diplomacy, and globalization. He has held faculty appointments at Long Island University in New York, 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 a book for Palgrave Macmillan Press entitled Franco Sells Spain to America: Hollywood, Tourism and Public Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power. His latest research project concerns the BRIC states, culture and soft power in the 21st century, the outgrowth of a series of 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.
A light lunch is provided.
