Cord A. Scott

Cord A. Scott is an American academic who studies “war themed comics from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom”. ^[1] Scott has published one book and a number of articles in academic journals that more closely examine the role of comic books in social history.

Academic life

Cord Scott earned a BA degree in History from Minot State University in 1991 and an MA in International Relations from Baylor University in 1992. ^[2] In 2011, Cord Scott received his PhD in American History from Loyola University Chicago.

The topic of his dissertation was Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War II Through the Iraq War and it looked closely at how "war- and patriotically-themed comics evolved" and served as "a mirror of American society" during times of conflict. ^[3]

He currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor at a number of Chicago area schools ^[4] including Harold Washington College and Triton College. He also spent a year teaching at the University of Maryland University College in Okinawa, Japan as a Professor of Liberal Arts.

Career

Partly due to his experiences as an educator, Scott served as a consultant on the 2012 documentary-based TV show Inside World War II. ^[5] He also consulted for the Pritzker Military Museum and Library's exhibition “Don’t Be a Dope: Training Comics in World War II and the Korean War" that opened in 2012.^{[6] [7]}

Publications

• Written in Red, White, and Blue:A Comparison of Comic Book Propaganda from World War II and September 11. Published in 2007 in the Journal of Popular Culture^[8]
• The Alpha and the Omega Captain America and the Punisher, a chapter in book "Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays" published in March 2009.^[6]
• From HYDRA to Al-Qaeda: Depictions of Terrorism in Comic Books. Presented at Purdue University in 2011.^[9]

Cord Scott expanded his PhD dissertation into a book that was published in September 2014 by the Naval Institute Press. It draws on many of his previous publications.

Personal life

Scott is a native of Oak Park, just outside Chicago.^[10]

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