Justin Hart
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Justin Hartjustin.hart@ttu.edu
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2004
U.S. Diplomatic History
Justin Hart began teaching at Texas Tech as Assistant Professor of History during the fall of 2005. Dr. Hart came to Lubbock after serving for a year as an Academic Advisor and Junior Resident Fellow in the Humanities at Purchase College, part of the State University of New York. In 2004, he earned the Ph. D. in History from Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ, with specializations in U. S. History, U. S. Foreign Relations, and African-American History. He received his B. A. in History (Magna Cum Laude, with Honors in the Liberal Arts and Departmental Distinction in History) in 1996 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. At SMU, he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He grew up in Emporia, Kansas—home of the great Progressive Era journalist, William Allen White.
Dr. Hart teaches the U. S. History survey, as well graduate and undergraduate courses in 20th century U. S. Foreign Relations. He has also taught a course on the United States and the Cold War and is preparing undergraduate courses on U. S. History through Film and U. S. Foreign Relations to 1898, as well as a graduate course on Historical Methods that looks at the process of "internationalizing American history"
Dr. Hart's research focuses on mass communications and U. S. foreign relations from the 1930s to the 1950s. His work seeks to explain how image came to matter to U. S. foreign policy and U. S. foreign relations. He is in the process of revising for publication his dissertation on this topic, entitled: "Empire of Ideas: Mass Communications and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Relations, 1938-1954." He has published an article in the Pacific Historical Review, "Making Democracy Safe for the World: Race, Propaganda, and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy during World War II," that examines the issue of image through the lens of race and civil rights. This article received the James Madison Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government, as well as the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. Dr. Hart has presented his work at the annual conferences of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.