Media organizations requesting interviews or appearances should contact Sherine B. Walton, Deputy Director at sbwalton@usc.edu,
Tel: (213) 821-2078
Director, Master of Public Diplomacy Program, USC
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, Selling War, published by OUP New York in 1995, was a study of British information work in the United States before Pearl Harbor, and was named by Choice Magazine as one of the ten best academic books of that year. He is the co-editor (with David Culbert and David Welch) of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500-present (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, Albuquerque, 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.
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
June 12, 2009 - Jefferson on Soft Power: Behind Obama's Cairo Quote CPD Blog
May 5, 2009 - Lugar to the Rescue: Senate Committee Backs 'Science Envoy' Plan CPD Blog
March 20, 2009 - My Culture + Your Culture = ? CPD Blog
Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Track Two to Peace? Los Angeles, CA: Figueroa Press, 2009.
February 21, 2009 - Mexico at the Cross Roads CPD Blog
January 15, 2009 - The Future of American Cultural Diplomacy CPD Blog
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
April 30, 2009 - Nicholas Cull, CPD University Fellow and Director of the USC Master of Public Diplomacy Program, participated in a US-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on "China’s Propaganda and Influence Operations, Its Intelligence Activities that Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security." [PDF] To read Cull's testimony, click here.
January 9, 2009 - CPD University Fellow Nicholas Cull quoted in Los Angeles Times story entitled "War films aren't just goodies vs. baddies."
December 4, 2008 - CPD University Fellow Nicholas Cull discusses the history of public diplomacy on America Abroad Radio (Updated re-broadcast)
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