Nancy Snow is an American propaganda and public diplomacy author who holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University's School of International Service in Washington, D.C. In AY 2023/2024, she served as a Fulbright Professor of Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communications in Athens, Greece, at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences ("Panteion"). She also lectured at the Hellenic National Defense College and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Snow held the Walt Disney Faculty Endowed Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, and served as a visiting distinguished professor, where she remains a guest lecturer in strategic communications with the Schwarzman Scholars Program. For six years, Snow held a special appointment as Pax Mundi ("Distinguished") Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, the first full-time PD professor in Japan. She maintains many professional affiliations: strategic communications advisor at the International Security Industry Council Japan; senior fellow at the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications; faculty advisor to the OIST Foundation; adjunct fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan; and senior advisor in global public affairs with Kreab Tokyo.

Dr. Snow is an Emerita Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, and a former Adjunct Professor in the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, where she was founding faculty of the Center on Public Diplomacy and Masters in Public Diplomacy program. Her visiting professor appointments include Turkey (Baskent University); China (Tsinghua); Israel (Reichman/IDC-Herzliya); Japan (Sophia/Keio); and Malaysia (UiTM), as well as Syracuse University’s Maxwell and Newhouse Schools.

Snow is the author, editor, or co-editor of 17 books, including the forthcoming "Battleship Diplomat: The Enduring Legacy of the USS Missouri" (Naval Institute Press, 2026). Recent publications are the 8th edition of "Propaganda and Persuasion" (Sage, 2025); "Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy" (with Nicholas J. Cull); "Japan's Information War"; and "The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda" (with Paul Baines and Nicholas O'Shaughnessy).

A three-time award recipient of a Fulbright (Germany/Japan/Greece) and Abe Fellow, Snow has served as a U.S. Speaker and Specialist in Public Diplomacy for the Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.