Nancy Snow is an American professor and

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of propaganda and public diplomacy. She has authored, edited or co-edited fifteen books, including ''Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World'', an overview of American cultural policy that includes a foreword by Herbert Schiller and introduction by

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; and ''Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control since 9-11''.

Education

Snow graduated summa cum laude with a

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from

Clemson University Clemson University () is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university in the student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester, the university enr ...

. Snow holds a

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from American University School of International Service (SIS) where she concentrated in international/intercultural communication, peace and conflict resolution studies, and U.S. foreign policy. In 2020 Snow held the Walt Disney Faculty Chair in Global Media and Communication in the

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Program at

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in Beijing.

References

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