James J. Kimble (PhD, University of Maryland) is Professor of Communication & the Arts at Seton Hall University (New Jersey, USA). He studies domestic propaganda, war rhetoric, and visual imagery. His research on the World War II era has reached a worldwide media audience of over 1.2 billion people in more than a dozen languages, and he is the founding editor of the academic journal Home Front Studies.

 

He is the author of Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda and Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II, as well as co-editor of The 10¢ War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II and the writer and co-producer of the feature documentary Scrappers: How the Heartland Won World War II.

 

Dr. Kimble was also guest curator and catalogue editor for the Norman Rockwell Museum’s traveling exhibition, Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms. His research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the London Times, National Public Radio, Time magazine, People magazine, Smithsonian magazine, Politico magazine, The Conversation, and the television show Mysteries at the Museum.