John Morello is a senior professor of history at DeVry University who holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has over 25 years of teaching experience at DeVry University and other institutions. Morello has published extensively on topics related to 20th century American history, the Vietnam War, and history of advertising. He is an active member and presenter at several history organizations and has received numerous teaching awards.

1. VITA
NAME: John Morello
516 Alyssa
Plano, Il 60545
630-415-6311 (Cell)
jmorello@devry.edu
johnmorello@att.net
EDUCATION: Ph.D., American History, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A., International Affairs (Latin American Studies),
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
B.A., International Affairs, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.
TEACHING Senior Professor of History, DeVry University,
EXPERIENCE: Addison, IL, 1992- Present
Adjunct Professor of History, College of DuPage
Center for Independent Learning,
1986-2009
Adjunct Professor of History, Waubonsee
Community College, 2005-2006
COURSES TAUGHT: American History
20th
Century World History (HIST 410)
Post-1945 History (HIST 412)
Vietnam and the American Experience (HIST 415)
Technology, Society and Culture (LAS 432)
Political Science (POLI 330) Introduction
Political Science-Social Movements (POLI 410)
Political Science-International Relations (POLI 457)
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS:
Historians of 20th
Century United States (HOTCUS)
Society for Military History (SMH)
Society for the History of American Foreign Relations
(SHAFR)

2. PUBLICATIONS: “Open Arms, Closed Minds and Eyes: Chieu Hoi, PSYOP,
and the Intelligence Failures in the 1968 Tet Offensive”,
Sept 3, 2015, War History Online
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/open-arms-
closed-minds-and-eyes-chieu-hoi-psyop-and-the-
intelligence-failures-in-the-1968-tet-offensive.html
“Herman DeVry”. Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-
American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present,
German Historical Institute, 2015.
http://immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=64
“Marshall Fields and Macy’s”, Reforming America: a
Thematic Encyclopedia and Document, ABC-CLIO, 2015
“Deep Water, Dark Secrets: Reassessing the
Historiography of the Tonkin Gulf Incident”,
War History Online-
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/tag/gulf-of-tonkin
“Constitutionalism”, Ideas and Movements that Shaped
America, ABC-CLIO Press, 2014
Co-Author, “What College Students Ought to Learn”,
DeVry University Journal of Scholarship, 2014
“Albert Lasker: Advertiser, Innovator, and Immigrant”.
Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business
Biographies, 1720 to the Present, German Historical
Institute, 2012
“The 1920 Presidential Election” The Twenties in America,
Salem Press, 2012
“The Round Table at the Algonquin” The Twenties in
America, Salem Press, 2012
“Nick Ut: A Biography”, Encyclopedia of the Vietnam
War: A Political, Social and Military History, ABC-CLIO
Press, 2011

3. “Revolts, Rebellions and Insurgencies”, Revolts, Protests,
Demonstrations and Rebellions in American History, ABC-
CLIO Press, 2010
“The Sit-In Movement”, Encyclopedia of African-
American History, Walter C. Rucker, editor, ABC-CLIO
Press, 2010.
“War and Race Relations”. Encyclopedia of American
Reform Movements, John McKivigan and Heather L.
Kaufman, eds. Facts on File, 2010.
“Television”, the Encyclopedia of the Modern World,
1750-Present, Stephen Wagley, Editor. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
“American Express”, Encyclopedia of the Modern World,
1750-Present, Stephen Wagley, Editor. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
“Credit Cards”, Encyclopedia of the Modern World, 1750-
Present, Stephen Wagley, Editor. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
“Genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo”,
War Crimes and Trials; A Historical Encyclopedia from
1850 to the Present, Steven Danvers, Editor. Santa
Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 2008.
Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st
Century, and
Beyond: Prentice Hall, 2008.
“Francisco Pizarro”
The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450,
Thomas Benjamin, Editor. New York: Macmillan
Reference, 2005.
“George Ball and William Calley”
Encyclopedia of The 1960’s,
Gary Largo, Editor, Praeger Publishing, 2004.
“The Tank”, Encyclopedia of 20th
Century
Technology, Colin Hempstead, Editor,
Routledge Press, London, 2003.

4. "Drug Use among Soldiers in Vietnam"
Americans at War: Society, Culture and The
Homefront, Richard Jensen, Editor, Macmillan
Reference, USA. 2003
"Music during the Vietnam War", Americans at War:
Society, Culture and the Homefront,
Richard Jensen, Editor, Macmillan Reference, USA, 2003.
"Schlitz Beer", The Encyclopedia of Advertising History,
John McDonough, Editor, Fitztroy-Dearborn, USA, 2002.
"Agent Orange", Dictionary of American History,
Stanley Kutler, Editor, Charles Scribner's Sons/ Gale
Group, New York, 2002.
Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st
Century.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Prentice Hall, 2002
Selling the President, 1920: Albert D. Lasker, Advertising,
And The Election of Warren G. Harding. Praeger, 2001.
Technology and Society: Crossroads to The 21st
Century. Chicago; McGraw-Hill, 1996
Technology and Society: A Spectrum of Issues for
The 21st
Century. Chicago; McGraw-Hill, 1995
PAPERS: ”The Livable City: The Union of Technology and Public
Policy”, DeVry/Brazil University International Energy
Seminar, October 26-28, Fortaleza, Brazil.
“Captive Audiences: America’s Fascination with
Captivity”. Historians of 20th
Century United States, June

5. 26-28, 2015, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
“Open Arms, Closed Eyes: Chieu Hoi, Psyop and the
Intelligence Failures of the 1968 Tet Offensive”
Society of Military History Annual Conference, April 4-6,
2014, Kansas City
Richard Jensen, Chair
Commentator: “War and the Home Front”
Society for Military History
80th
Annual Conference
March 14-17, 2013
New Orleans, La
“Selling the Available Man: Albert D. Lasker, Advertising,
and the Election of Warren G. Harding”
Historians of the 20th
Century United States
June 20-22, 2012, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg,
Netherlands. Iwan Morgan, Institute of the Americas,
University College of London, Chair.
“Distance Collaborative Learning with DeVry Brazil”:
Panel Discussion,
DeVry University National Faculty Symposium
April, 2012
“Deep Water, Dark Secrets: Assessing the Historiography
of the Tonkin Gulf Incident”
Historians of the 20th
Century United States
July 7-9, 2011, University of Oxford
Sandra Scanlon, University College, Dublin, Chair
“Back to the Future”: a Panel Discussion on how Teaching
the Past Helps Students Understand the Future”,
DeVry University National Faculty Symposium
April, 2011
Commentator: “Varieties of the Cold War Experience”
Ohio Valley History Conference
October 14-16, 2010
Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN
Kent Dollar, Ph.D., Conference Chair

6. “Engaging Students with Visual Media”,
DeVry University National Faculty Symposium
April, 2010
Panel Chair, “World War I Studies”,
Ohio Valley History Conference,
October 22-23, 2004,
Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville TN
Jeff Roberts, Ph.D., Conference Chair
“Third World Studies: Giving First World Students
Real World Experience”, Presented to the Third World
Conference, Chicago Illinois, March 2004.
“Hard Cash, Soft Sell: Campaign Finance and the Election
Of Warren Harding”, Presented to the American Historical
Association Annual Conference, January 2002.
"Hard Cash, Soft Sell: Campaign Finance and The
Election of Warren Harding", Presented to The
Conference on the History of Advertising Research
In Marketing, Duke University, May, 2001.
"Hard Cash, Soft Sell: Campaign Finance and The
Election of Warren Harding", Presented to The Ohio
Valley History Conference, Murray State University,
Murray, KY, October 2000.
"Smokesignals: Telling Women to Light up Those
Luckies", Presented to the Popular Culture Association
Conference, New Orleans, April 2000.
"Candidates, Consumers and Closers: Albert D. Lasker,
Advertising and Politics, 1900-1920" Presented to the
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, March,
2000.
"Crossing Paths: Albert Lasker and the Road to Lake
Forest", Presented to the Illinois State History Symposium,
Springfield, IL, December 1999.

7. "Candidates, Consumers and Closers: Albert D. Lasker,
Advertising and Politics, 1900-1920", Presented to the
Ohio Valley History Conference, Tennessee Tech
University, Cookeville, TN, October, 1999.
GRANTS: Travel-to-Collection Grant
John W. Hartman Museum of Advertising History
Duke University, 2002-2003
AWARDS: Fulbright Specialist Roster Grantee, 2013
Herman DeVry Chicago Alumni Faculty Award Winner,
2013
Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professors of the Year Nominee
DeVry University TEACH/PRIDE Award Recipient, 2012
Who's Who among America's Teachers; 2002
REVIEWS: “Captive Audiences.” International History Review.
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis
Publishing. November, 2015).
“Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape and
Brainwashing.” Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 2009. DeVry University Journal of Scholarly
Research, June, 2015.
Name, Rank and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War
POWs At Home and Abroad. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2014. Reviewed for HOTCUS, 2015
A Cold War State of Mind: Brainwashing and Post-War
American Society, Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2013. H-Net, 2014.
Wizard 6: A Combat Psychiatrist in Vietnam, College
Station, Texas: Texas A& M University Press, 2006.
Reviewed in Bridgehead Sentinel, a publication of
The First Division Foundation.

8. "The Biographical Dictionary of the History of
Technology", reviewed in The History Teacher, 2001.
REFEREED "Cultural Renegades: The International Expansion of U.S.
ARTICLES: Advertising in Latin America in the Early Twentieth
Century", Harvard Business History Review,
Walter A. Friedman, Co-Editor
MISCALLANEOUS: Fulbright Specialist Assignment: Split, Croatia, March
13-27, 2016. I was affiliated with the University of
Split’s Department of History, and gave four
departmental lectures on US foreign policy and two
public lectures on the American presidential election
process.
Fulbright Specialist Assignment: Islamabad, Pakistan,
March 7-21, 2015. I was affiliated with Quaid-I-Azam
University’s Area Studies Center,(Noman Satter, Director)
where I lectured on US History and advised PhD students.
External Thesis Advisor/Evaluator: Department of
American Studies, Area Studies Center, Quaid-I-Azam
University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2015.
Visiting Professor, DeVry Brazil. I delivered a series of
lectures on US/Brazilian relations to faculty and students at
DeVry University campuses in Fortaleza, Salvador,
Caruaru and Recife, March, 2014.
Book Review Editor, DeVry University Journal of
Scholarly Research, 2014
National Honors Council, DeVry University
2013
Subject Matter Expert/Curriculum Designer, HIST 410
(20th
Century World History), DeVry University, 2015

9. Subject Matter Expert/Curriculum Designer, HIST 415
(History of the Vietnam War) DeVry University Study
Abroad Program, 2014.
International Relations (POLI 457) Curriculum
Co-developer, DeVry University, 2012
Subject Matter Expert, POLI 330 (Political Science),
DeVry University, 2010
US History Subject Matter Expert,
DeVry University, 2010
History of Vietnam War Subject Matter Expert,
DeVry University, 2010
U.S. History Curriculum Guide Co-Author
DeVry University, 2009
Post-1945 History Curriculum Guide Reviewer
DeVry University, 2004-2005
Reader: AP History Project, Louisville, 2007
Contributing Faculty Advisor: Addison History Society
Oral History Project, 2006.
Faculty Advisor: A Soldier’s Story: Oral History and the
Vietnam Veteran, in cooperation with the 1st
Infantry
Division Museum, Winfield, Illinois, 2006-2009
NON-EDUCATIONAL Copywriter, Assistant Producer, National Public Radio,
EXPERIENCE: Washington, DC, 1972-1978
Field Operative, AJF and Associates, Political Consulting,
New York, 1979-1982
LANGUAGE I can read, write, and conduct basic conversations in
SKILLS: Spanish. Limited knowledge of French and Portuguese,
and am learning Italian

10. COMPUTER SKILLS: Microsoft Word, Power Point, Voice Thread, e-College
Online Instruction.
REFERENCES:
Ronald Cimo, Senior Mgr., Scholarship and Education
Fund, DeVry University
Richard Jensen, History Department, University of
Illinois/Chicago
Emma Long, Senior Staff, Historians of The Twentieth
Century United States, Professor, University of East
Anglia, United Kingdom
Carmel Geraghty, Fulbright Foundation, Washington, DC
Rita Akhtar, Fulbright Foundation Station Chief, Pakistan
Joy Klotz PhD., Faculty Manager, DeVry University
Online
Julie Hagemann, PhD., Faculty Chair, DeVry University
Addison, Illinois Campus
Kymberli Mulford, Technology Adviser, DeVry University