Nancy Snow is Professor Emerita of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. A globally recognized scholar of public diplomacy, strategic communication, and propaganda studies, her career bridges academia, policy, and media across key diplomatic capitals, including Athens, Ankara, Beijing, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.

Snow has been based primarily in Tokyo since 2012, beginning as a Fulbright Professor at Sophia University, followed by an Abe Fellowship Program and Visiting Research Professorship at Keio University (2013–2015). She served as Pax Mundi (“Distinguished”) Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (2016–2022). Since 2021, she has served as a senior advisor in global communications at Kreab Tokyo.

In Beijing, Snow held the Walt Disney Faculty Chair in Global Media and Communication in the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University (2020), later returning as Visiting Distinguished Professor of Strategic Communications and Faculty Advisor (2022–2023). Her visiting professorships also include Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens and Başkent University in Ankara, further extending her global academic footprint.

Her academic appointments involve leadership roles as a foundational faculty member at two of the world’s premier graduate programs in public diplomacy: Syracuse University’s Newhouse School and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. At USC Annenberg, she was a principal faculty consultant in establishing the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and later became its first Senior Research Fellow. She previously served in the United States Information Agency and the U.S. Department of State as a Presidential Management Fellow during the Bill Clinton administration.

Snow is the author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books translated into multiple languages. Her most recent works include the 8th edition of Propaganda and Persuasion (with Garth Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell, 2025) and Battleship Diplomat: The Enduring Legacy of the USS Missouri (Naval Institute Press, 2026). She is a contributing writer to Nikkei Asia and its Japanese parent publication.

Her professional affiliations include NATO’s Defence Strategic Communications, the International Security Industry Council of Japan, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Foundation, the Yokosuka Council on Asia Pacific Studies, and the Temple University Japan Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies.

Snow earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from the American University School of International Service, with a focus on international and intercultural communication, as well as peace and conflict resolution. A three-time Fulbright recipient (Germany, Japan, Greece), she is a lifetime member of the Fulbright Association and the Public Diplomacy Council of America. She remains a leading advocate for exchange diplomacy, gender diplomacy, and the role of strategic communication in global trust-building.