Dr. Ron Robin is a Senior Advisor to Academic Leadership at NYU Shanghai. He has recently completed his term as the 11th President of the University of Haifa, Israel. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Robin was a professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, as well as Senior Vice Provost at NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi, and NYU Shanghai.
Select Publications
The Cold War They Made; The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter (Harvard University Press, 2016) 365p.
Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook the Academy (University of California Press, 2004) 266p. paperback edition,2004
The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex (Princeton University Press, 2001) 287p. paperback edition: 2003
The Barbed Wire College: Reeducating German Prisoners of War in the United States During World War II (Princeton University Press, 1995) 217p. E.edition: 2002. Hebrew Edition, 2020
Enclaves of America; The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad; 1900-1965 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1992) 208p. Paperback edition: 1994
Education
- PhD, History
University of California, Berkeley - MA, History
University of California, Berkeley - BA, History and Romance Languages
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Research Interests
Dr. Robin’s main research interest resides at the interface between international relations and culture. In contrast to the mainstream of modern American historians, who separate cultural history from diplomatic history, his work combines the two currents, asserting that it is impossible to understand the global strategy of the United States in isolation from domestic cultural shifts and rifts.