Todd M. Bennett
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office:  Brewster A201
Phone:  252-328-1033
Fax:  252-328-6774
Email:  bennettm@ecu.edu

Todd Bennett specializes in 20th-Century U.S. History with an emphasis on America’s cultural interaction with the wider world.  His first book, tentatively entitled One World, Big Screen, explores how Hollywood’s portrayal of World War II’s Grand Alliance contributed not only to wartime allied solidarity but also to an internationalist worldview that helped give rise to the postwar United Nations Organization.  One World, Big Screen is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.  He is now working on a second book, The Spirits of ’76, a global history of America’s Bicentennial commemoration in 1976.  His work has appeared in the Journal of American History, the International History Review, and Film and History, among other publications.

Before coming to East Carolina University, Dr. Bennett served from 2002 to 2009 with the Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, where he edited or co-edited three volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, the official documentary record of U.S. foreign policy; from 2006 to 2009, he also directed the Office’s Europe and Global Issues Division, overseeing the work of six professional historians.  Bennett has taught at The George Washington University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design, both located in Washington, DC.  He held a visiting assistant professorship at the University of Nevada – Reno in 2001-2002.  In 2001, Bennett earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Georgia, where he won two outstanding teaching awards.

Selected Publications:
One World, Big Screen:  The Allies, Hollywood, and the Imagination of Global Community during the Second World War.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.

“The Celluloid War:  State and Studio in Anglo-American Propaganda Film-Making, 1939-
1941,” The International History Review 24 (March 2002):  64-102.

“Culture, Power, and Mission to Moscow:  Film and Soviet-American Relations during the
Second World War,” The Journal of American History 88 (September 2001):  489-518.

“Anglophilia On Film:  Creating an Atmosphere for Alliance, 1935-1941,” Film & History 27
(1997):  4-21.

Editor.  Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXXIV, National Security
Policy, 1969-1972.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office, forthcoming.

Editor.  Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXXV, National Security
Policy, 1973-1976.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office, forthcoming.

Co-editor.  Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXXIII, Organization and Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1973-1976.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office, forthcoming.

Courses Offered:
HIST 1051:  American History since 1877