Craig Hayden, Ph.D.

Biography

Command and Staff College

Craig Hayden, Ph.D.

Craig Hayden joined the MCU Command and Staff College as Associate Professor of Strategic Studies in 2018. He is the Security Studies Department Head and the current chair of the MCU Faculty Council (2022-present). From 2015-2018, he served as Coordinator for the Diplomatic Mastery Program at the U.S. Department of State, where he developed an interdisciplinary, blended learning program for all incoming Foreign Service officers. Dr. Hayden also taught courses in international communication and international relations theory at the American University School of International Service. Dr. Hayden is a Research Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and a member of the Public Diplomacy Council in Washington D.C. He has served as the Division Chair for the International Communication section of the International Studies Association. He has published on strategic communication, diplomacy, and the role of technology in international relations. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts (Lexington Books, 2011) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (Routledge, 2016). His current research focuses on the logics of influence in U.S. public diplomacy strategy, the use of AI in content analysis research methods, and on the role of narrative in U.S. foreign policy argumentation.