M. Todd 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, One World, Big Screen, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.  It explores Hollywood’s portrayal of World War II’s Grand Alliance and how it underwrote both international solidarity and a globalist worldview that gave rise to the postwar United Nations Organization.  He is working on a second book, The Spirits of ’76, a history of America’s Bicentennial commemoration in 1976.  His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, the International History Review, and Film & 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.  He directed that Office’s Europe and Global Issues Division from 2006 to 2009.  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 World War II.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.

“The Celluloid War:  State and Studio in Anglo-American Propaganda Filmmaking, 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:  USGPO, forthcoming.

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

Courses Offered:
HIST 1051:  American History since 1877
HIST 3200:  Diplomatic History of the United States
HIST 3235:  The Era of Populism and Progressivism in American History, 1892-1919
HIST 3240:  The Age of Franklin Roosevelt, 1919-1945
HIST 3245:  The United States Since 1945
HIST 6045:  Progressive Movements and the Age of Normalcy in American History
HIST 6050:  The Great Depression, New Deal, and World War II
HIST 6055:  The United States Since 1945
HIST 6180:  Diplomatic History of the United States to 1898
HIST 6181:  Diplomatic History of the United States Since 1898