David Culbert

John L. Loos Professor 
250H Himes Hall
578-4503
dhculbert@aol.com

 

Courses Taught

America Since 1945

Honors Seminar on Nazi Germany & the Holocaust

Survey American History Since 1865

Graduate Readings Seminar, America Since 1900

Graduate Research Seminar

Graduate Seminar in 20th Century Propaganda

 

Current Research Interests

Mass Media & Propaganda; Nazi Germany and Propaganda; 20th century American history

 

Interested in Directing Theses On

20th century American history–cultural, political, mass media and propaganda

 

Education

B.A. German History, Oberlin College B.Mus. Organ Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

Ph.D. in American History, Northwestern University, Evanston

 

Awards and Honors

Fellow, Wilson Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Inst.

Fellow, National Humanities Center, Yale U.

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

Who’s Who in the World

Who’s Who in America

 

 

Books

News for Everyman: Radio and Foreign Affairs in Thirties America (Greenwood, 1976)

Mission to Moscow (U. Wisconsin Press, 1980)

Editor-in-Chief, Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History (6,500 pp.; 5 vols., Greenwood, 1990-1993)

Co-editor, World War II, Film and History (Oxford UP, 1996)

Co-editor, Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present (ABC-Clio, 2003)

Editor and Translator, English-language facsimile edition of Leni Riefenstahl’s Behind the Scenes of the National Party Convention Film(International Historic Films, Inc. 2010)

Editor, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1992 to present (Quarterly, published in Oxford, UK)