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Media organizations requesting interviews or appearances should contact cpd@usc.edu,
Tel: (213) 821-2078
Annenberg
cull@usc.edu
Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy and Director of the Masters Program in Public Diplomacy at USC. He took both his BA and PhD at the University of Leeds. While a graduate student he studied at Princeton in the USA as a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York. From 1992 to 1997 he was lecturer in American History at the University of Birmingham. From September 1997 to August 2005 he was Professor of American Studies and Director of the Centre for American Studies in the Department of History at Leicester.
His research and teaching interests are broad and inter-disciplinary, and focus on the the role of culture, information, news and propaganda in foreign policy. He is the author of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989 (Cambridge, 2008). His first book was Selling War (Oxford,1995), a study of British information work in the United States before Pearl Harbor. Both books were named by Choice Magazine as one of the best academic books of their respective year. He is the co-editor (with David Culbert and David Welch) of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500-present (ABC-Clio, 2003) which was one of Booklist magazine's reference books of the year, and co-editor with David Carrasco of Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (University of New Mexico Press, 2004). He has published numerous articles on the theme of propaganda and media history. He is an active film historian who has been part of the movement to include film and other media within the mainstream of historical sources. His film work includes two volumes co-authored with James Chapman, Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2009) and the forthcoming Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (I.B.Tauris, 2012).
He is President of the International Association for Media and History, a member of the Public Diplomacy Council and has worked closely with the British Council's Counterpoint Think Tank.
Recent Publications by Nicholas Cull
2011- "Chapter 7- Karen Hughes and the Brezhnev Syndrome: The Trial of Public Diplomacy as Domestic Performance" in Trials of Engagement: The Future of US Public Diplomacy. CPD Noteworthy
February 2011 - WikiLeaks, Public Diplomacy 2.0 and the State of Digital Public Diplomacy. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Volume 7, Issue 1., 1-8.
November 4, 2010 - Looking for God at the Shanghai Expo: Religion, Nation Branding and the Soft Power of the Showdown in China CPD Blog
October 14, 2010 - Advance Australia Where? Nation Brands and Soft Power Down-Under CPD Blog
October 2010 - Cinematic Diplomacy: Back to the Future, again..., PDiN Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 8.
July 26, 2010 - Jamming for Uncle Sam: Getting the Best from Cultural Diplomacy CPD Blog
Books
Projecting Empire by James Chapman & Nicholas J. Cull. New York: Macmillan, 2009.
Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Track Two to Peace? Los Angeles, CA: Figueroa Press, 2009.
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Nicholas Cull in the News
November 21, 2011 - The New York Times quoted Nicholas Cull of the USC Annenberg School about the US sinking into a risk-averse position since 9/11.
September 14, 2011 - Nick Cull quoted in NextGov.com article discussing the changing face of public diplomacy messaging coming from coalitions rather than single voices.
April 5, 2011 - Philip Seib and Nicholas Cull quoted in the Jerusalem Post on Israel's public diplomacy efforts at the international conference on Israel's Global Image Crisis: Public Diplomacy and Communications Strategies at Bar Ilan University.
October 20, 2010 - Nick Cull cited on Australia Broadcasting Corp. blog “The Drum Unleashed.”
May 5, 2010 - CPD University Fellow Discusses UK Elections on Public Radio.
April 24, 2010 - New York Times quotes MPD Director Nick Cull on Confucius Classroom grants.
February 11, 2010 - Miami Herald quotes CPD University Fellow Nick Cull on VOA-Radio Marti alliance.
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