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Ron Robin October 2015 1 Ron Robin October 2015 Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications I.Curriculum Vitae Personal Details Date of Birth: April 23, 1951, Tel Aviv, 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 New York University, 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, Jerusalem (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 University of Haifa, 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 3 “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 .
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