Established in 2009, this program supports and publicizes the work of scholars and practitioners of public diplomacy. Three CPD Research Fellows are selected each year from a competitive pool of international applicants for a two-year non-resident term.

In the spring of 2014, CPD launched this program to recognize and support the work of emerging scholars with two annual awards to doctoral students engaged in cutting-edge research.

This program offers USC graduate students, primarily in the unique USC Master of Public Diplomacy program, direct exposure to the academic and practical ­field of public diplomacy.

CPD hosts visiting scholars who contribute to the academic and practical discipline of public diplomacy. The U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence and the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair are two standing appointments at CPD.

This program is designed to create a productive virtual space for research collaboration. CPD selects Contributing Scholars whose work closely aligns with its research priorities. Appointments are for a renewable term of one year.

The CPD-SIF Southeast Asia Research Fellowship program is part of the Center’s Public Diplomacy in Southeast Asia initiative, with support from the Singapore International Foundation (SIF). The program supports new scholarship on the growing role of public diplomacy by countries in the region with implications for the dynamic regional and global relations.