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Ron Robin October 2015

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

I.Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details Date of Birth: April 23, 1951, , Israel Marital Status: married, four children Citizenship: Israeli and South African. Home Address: 4 Washington Square Village, Apt 11B, New York, NY 10012 Office Address: Office of the Provost , Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York NY 10012 Cell US: +13474970208 E.MAIL: [email protected]

Higher Education 1975-1978 B.A., Hebrew University, (History and Romance Languages) 1980-1981 M.A., University of California, Berkeley (History) 1981-1986 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (History)

Academic Ranks and Tenure 1986,University of California, Berkeley, History, Acting instructor 1986 , History, Lecturer (tenure track) 1992 University of Haifa, History, Senior Lecturer (tenured) 1995 University of Haifa, History & Communications, Associate Professor 2002 University of Haifa, History & Communications, Professor 2006 New York University, Professor of History, Media, Culture and Communication (tenured)

Offices in University Administration 1992-1993 Acting Director, Overseas Studies Program 1993-1995 Chair, Integrative History Department, Oranim Campus 1995-2000 Head, University of Haifa Honors Department 2000-2005 Dean of Student Affairs, University of Haifa 2006-2008 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Steinhardt School, New York University 2008-2009 Acting Senior Vice Provost for Planning, New York University 2009- 2013Senior Vice Provost for Planning, Senior Vice Provost for NYU Abu Dhabi, New York University 2013-Senior Vice Provost for Global Faculty Development, NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai 2011-Board of Governors, Habib University Foundation, Pakistan

Language Proficiency: English: mother tongue Hebrew: mother tongue Italian: proficient Arabic: reading proficient; oral (Palestinian dialect, standard Arabic) fair

II Publications

Ph.D. Dissertation "Urban Iconographies: Signs of Change and Immigrants in the American City, 1886-1915" (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986). 319p. Dissertation committee: Gunther Barth (history), James Kettner (history), James Vance Jr. (geography). B. Books 2

Authored Books Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy (University of California Press, 2004) 266p. paperback edition,2004

The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex (Princeton University Press, 2001) 287p. paperback edition: 2003

The Barbed Wire College: Reeducating German Prisoners of War in the United States During World War II (Princeton University Press, 1995) 217p. E.edition: 2002

Enclaves of America; The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad; 1900-1965 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1992) 208p. Paperback edition: 1994

Signs of Change; Urban Iconographies in San Francisco, 1880- 1915 (Garland Publishing, New York, 1990) 166p.

Edited Publications Homelands: Poetic Power and the Politics of Space, Ron Robin and Bo Strath, editors (Peter Lang, Brussels, Belgium, 2003). After D-Day: The US Cultural Presence Abroad; Special Issue of Borderlines, Ron Robin, Editor, 2 (March 1995) 175p. The Impact of US Culture Abroad; Special Issue of American Studies International, Ron Robin, Editor, 28 (October 1990) 134p.

Selected Articles in Refereed Journals “Denkfabriken im Kalten Krieg,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, 3:3 (2009), 17-32.

“Requiem for Public Diplomacy?” American Quarterly, 57:2 (2005), 345-353.

“Behavioral knowledge and Truce Talks: Images of the Enemy and Expert Knowledge in the Korean Armistice Negotiations,” Diplomatic History, 25 (Fall, 2001), 625-644

“An Imperial Vision,” Diplomatic History, 23 (Fall, 1999), 699-705 "The ''Southernization'' of American Diplomatic Architecture in the 1920s," European Contributions in American Studies, 33 (1996), 108-125

“A Foothold in Europe:'' The Aesthetics of American War Cemeteries in Western Europe," Journal of American Studies, 29 (April 1995), 55-72.

“Diplomatie et commémoration : les cimetières militaires américains en France (1918-1955). Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 42-1, (janvier-mars 1995), 126-141. "Icons of Imperialism: American Embassies as Political Architecture in the 1950s," Borderlines, 1 (September, 1993) 23-35.

"The Outsider as Marginal Scholar: Reflections on the Past, the Foreign, and Comparative Studies in American History," American Studies International, 31 (April, 1993), 117-125. "Jewish Architecture and Folk History in San Francisco," Journal of the West, 26 (October, 1987), 67-73.

Selective Articles in Books “The Exhaustion of Enclosures: A Critique of Internationalization,” in Thomas Bender, (ed.), Rethinking American History in a Global Age (University of California Press, 2002), 367-380

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“Two Cheers for the New Historians,” in Bo Strath (ed.), Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community (Peter Lang, Brussels,1999), 315-320 “Representations of the American Nation in Architecture: The Case of the 1920s,” in Bo Strath (ed.), Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community (Peter Lang, Brussels,1999), 187-198

"The War of Words: Literature for German POWs in the United States During World War II in George McKay (ed.) All-American Popular Culture: Studies in Americanisation (Keele University Press, 1996), 67-77

"American Studies as a Microcosm of Academia: Center and Periphery in Higher Education," in Richard P. Horwitz (ed.), Exporting America: Essays on American Studies Abroad (Garland Publishing, New York, 1993), 77-90

Work in Progress: Hamlet in the Nuclear Age: Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter and the Poetics of Strategic Thought in Cold War America (Harvard University Press, scheduled publication 2016)

References Upon request