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Professor Steven Casey

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*Sabbatical Leave 2025-26*

Professor Casey is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy. His books include Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2004), which explored American attitudes toward Nazi Germany during World War II; Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion, 1950-1953 (Oxford University Press, 2008; paperback 2010), which won both the Truman Book Award and the Neustadt Prize for best book in American Politics; and When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Debated Combat Casualties, from World War I to the War on Terror (Oxford University, 2014) which also won the Neustadt Prize.

His recent books have explored US war correspondents during World War II. War Report, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2017; paperback 2021) won the American Journalism Historians Association 2018 book of the year, the panel judging it "a landmark work for scholars, an engaging and compelling account of journalists dedicated to reporting the Allied campaigns to dislodge the German forces from Europe." War Beat Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan (Oxford University Press, 2021) was a finalist for both the Tankard Book Prize and the Frank Luther Mott Award, the judges applauding "the meticulous research in a range of archives" and its telling of "a complex story with precision, power, and grace."

Professor Casey studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia before moving to Oxford where he completed an M. Phil and then D. Phil in International Relations. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Trinity College, Oxford. He joined LSE in 2001.

In 2004-5, Professor Casey was the recipient of the Truman Scholar's Award. In 2006 he was awarded a Marshall/Baruch Fellowship. In 2008 he was one of the inaugural Visiting Fellows at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre in Canberra, as well as the Visiting Scholar at the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library in Perth, where he presented the annual Curtin Public Lecture entitled, 'A Missed Opportunity: The Curtin-Roosevelt Meeting and Australian-American Relations during World War II.' In

2009 he received a Mathew Ridgway Grant to research at the U.S. Military History Institute in Carlisle Pennsylvania. In 2010 he was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant, in 2011 a Moody Grant from the Lyndon Johnson Library, and in 2013 a Research Grant from the Eisenhower Foundation.

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20th-Century United States