CPD Research Fellow Roundtable with Michele Acuto and Sarah Ellen Graham

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to welcome current Research Fellows, Michele Acuto and Sarah Ellen Graham for a round-table discussion about their current projects.

Michele's research project, "The Diplomacy of Sustainability: Are Global Cities the New Climate Leaders?" and Sarah's project on U.S. Public Diplomacy and Indo-American Relations are just two examples of diverse public diplomacy research supported by CPD.

About Michele
Michele is a Research Fellow for the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. He is also a CPD Fellow of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and a Contributing Editor for the Diplomatic Courier. He completed a PhD in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University (ANU), where he begun his research on the strategic role of global cities for global governance. He also taught sociology in the Faculty of Business & Government at the University of Canberra between 2008 and 2011, and was associated with the Milan Polytechnic’s Faculty of Architecture “Urban Hybridization” Project between 2009 and 2010. He held visiting positions at the National University of Singapore’s Global Cities Cluster and Asia Research Institute, as well as at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin.

For more information about Michele's research project please click here.

About Sarah
Sarah Ellen Graham is a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, and was previously an adjunct lecturer at the University of Southern California. She was a postdoctoral fellow for 2007-8 at USC's Center for International Studies and the Center on Public Diplomacy. She has written a book on U.S. attitudes to public diplomacy in the 1918-1953 period and has published articles on U.S. public diplomacy in UNESCO (for which she was awarded the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Bernath Article Prize), on public diplomacy and the Indo-American relationship, and on Washington's prospects for effective track-two diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific. Her current project centers on the role of attitudes in the Indo-American diplomatic relationship from 1942 to the present, and while visiting the Center, Sarah intends to explore the public diplomacy aspects of this case in historical and contemporary contexts. Sarah also has an ongoing interest in International Relations theory, and hopes to engage in dialogue or workshops with the USC Master of Public Diplomacy program on the intersections between studies of public diplomacy and IR theory.

For more information about Sarah's research project, please click here.

To find out more about the CPD Research Fellow program please click here.