About the CPD Research Fellowship Program
In August 2009, the Center launched a new fellowship program designed to support and publicize the work of scholars and practitioners of public diplomacy. Selected from a competitive pool of international applicants by a review committee, the CPD Research Fellows will each oversee a substantive research project that will yield at least two outputs, including one publication for the CPD Perspectives on Public Diplomacy series. The second output could consist of a blog series for the CPD Blog, or another type of product which the Fellow develops with CPD. Three non-resident fellows will be named every year, each serving a two-year term. The selected candidates will each receive a $2,000 stipend awarded at the successful completion of the fellowship.
We will begin accepting applications for the 2023-25 fellowship term this summer through the deadline to apply, November 10, 2022. Selection will be made by early 2022. If you have any questions, please contact cpd@usc.edu with "ATTN: CPD Research Fellowship Application" in the subject line.
*Please note that USC students and faculty are ineligible for the CPD Research Fellowship.
Current CPD Research Fellows
Alistair Somerville
CPD Research Fellow, 2023–2025
Independent Researcher
CPD Project: “The United Nations’ Public Diplomacy in Donor Countries”
Kristin Anabel Eggeling
CPD Research Fellow, 2023–2025
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
CPD Project: “Diplomatic mimes: Big tech, digital regulation and mimetic diplomatic practice”
Anna Popkova
CPD Research Fellow, 2023–2025
Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
CPD Project: “Political Dissent as Non-State Public Diplomacy”
Noé Cornago
CPD Research Fellow, 2023–2025
Associate Professor, University of the Basque Country
CPD Project: “Hegemonic Transition Through Communication? Evolving Narratives and Interplay Between Material and Ideational Elements in USA-China Diplomatic Incidents (1990-2020)”
Kyle Long
CPD Research Fellow, 2022–2024
Senior Director, Organizational Strategy & Change, Northwestern University
CPD Project: “Greater American Higher Education”
Dmitry Chernobrov
CPD Research Fellow, 2022–2024
Associate Professor, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield
CPD Project: "Strategic Humor and Post-Truth Public Diplomacy"
Alina Dolea
CPD Research Fellow, 2022–2024
Principal Academic in Media, Communication and Politics, Bournemouth University
CPD Project: "Diaspora diplomacy, emotions and disruption"
Elisabeth King
CPD Research Fellow, 2021–2023
Associate Professor of International Education and Politics, New York University
CPD Project: "Symbolic Politics for Peace."
Shearon Roberts
CPD Research Fellow, 2021–2023
Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Xavier University of Louisiana
CPD Project: "City Diplomacy in Advancing Black Racial Solidarity: Opportunities and Implications in the Wake of Social Justice Movements."
Yoav Dubinsky
CPD Research Fellow, 2021–2023
Instructor of Sports Business, University of Oregon
CPD Project: "Sport-Tech Diplomacy in the Tokyo Olympic Games."
To view all CPD Research Fellowship projects, click here.
For a list of past CPD Research Fellows, click here.