Robert Rabe, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of English Noble Hall #240 rarabe@fortlewis.edu Expertise Academic Writing News Reporting and Writing Media History Media and Cultural Studies Media Law and Ethics Education Ph.D., Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin- Madison M.A., Journalism, University of Wisconsin- Madison B.A., American History, University of Nebraska- Lincoln About Rob Rabe Rob joined Fort Lewis College in Spring 2026 after 18 years on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University. His research primarily focuses on American politics and journalism in the 20th Century, especially topics related to the cold war, civil rights, the Vietnam war, and the new journalism of the 1960s. He is at work on a book about the newspaper reporter and columnist Marquis W. Childs, among several other projects. He founded and edits the Journal of 20th Century Media History and created and maintains the website History of Mass Communication in America: An Internet Biography. His wife, the art historian Dr. Cory Pillen, is the Director of the Center of Southwest Studies and Professor of Art and Design at Fort Lewis. They live in Durango with their dog, Sadie, and two cats, Chloe and Lucy. Current Curriculum Vitae Recent conference presentations Robert Rabe, “Discredit, Disrupt, and Destroy: Federal Attempts to Intimidate and Suppress the Black Press,” Negro History Week/Black History Month Centennial Symposium, Marshall University, March 2026. Robert Rabe, “The Pendulum Swings Right: Richard Dudman, Men of the Far Right, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the Early 1960s.” American Journalism Historians Association annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2024. Robert Rabe, “The New Yorker Magazine and the Vietnam War.” American Journalism Historians Association annual conference, Columbus, OH, September 2023. Robert Rabe, “The Moral Responsibilities of Scientists: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Public Policy, 1945-1950.” Policy History Association annual conference, Tempe, AZ, June 2022