Dr. Rosendorf is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; he is currently teaching "Globalization: History, Concepts, Issues." Additionally, he has been the Dean's Research Specialist at the Kennedy School since 1998.
Dr. Rosendorf 's doctoral dissertation, on the international scope and influence of American popular culture, has been nominated for the History Department's biennial Gross Prize for best doctoral thesis. He is a participant in the Kennedy School's Visions of Governance for the 21st Century project; he will be presenting "The Motion Picture Export Association of America: A Marketized U.S. Ministry of Culture," at this summer's Visions conference on marketization at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. He contributed a chapter on cultural and social globalization to the Visions volume, Governance in a Globalizing World (Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, eds., Brookings Institution Press, December 2000).
Dr. Rosendorf has written on U.S. nuclear policy and on U.S.-Israeli relations, and he co-authored a history of the Cold War. He will be a member of the InterAction Council's High Level Expert Group Meeting on "Pluralism and Global Governance" at the Kennedy School in April 2001. He was a panelist at the White House Conference on Culture and Diplomacy this past November, and he is currently consulting to the U.S. State Department on cultural globalization issues.
Dr. Rosendorf earned his B.A. at Rutgers University (1987), his M.A. at Ohio University's Contemporary History Institute (1991) and his Ph.D. at Harvard's History Department (2000).