INSTRUCTORS

• Nicholas Cull, PhD
  Professor and Director of the Master’s in Public Diplomacy, USC
• Eytan Gilboa, PhD
  Professor of International Communication, Bar-Ilan University
• Kelton Rhoads, PhD
  Adjunct Professor of Communications and Psychology, USC
• Philip Seib, JD
  Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, USC

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

Nicholas Cull comes to USC from the United Kingdom. His research and teaching interests are broad and inter-disciplinary, centering on the developing academic discipline of Public Diplomacy, the role of culture, information, news and propaganda in foreign policy. He is author of the forthcoming American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989: The United States Information Agency and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2007). His first book, Selling War, (Oxford University Press, 1995) was named by Choice Magazine as one of the best academic books of that year. Cull is the co-editor of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500-present (2003) which was one of Book List magazine’s reference books of the year, and co-editor of Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (2004). He is the president of the International Association for Media and History, and has worked closely with the British Council’s think tank, Counterpoint.

Eytan Gilboa is a professor of international communication, Chair of the Communication Program, senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and a Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. He is also a commentator on world television networks and contributes op-ed articles to newspapers around the world. He received his PhD from Harvard University and has been a visiting professor in several leading American and European universities including Harvard, UCLA, Georgetown, Tufts, and the University of Hamburg. In 2002, he was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Gilboa has won several significant awards including the 2001 Best Article Award of the International Communication Association. He has written extensively on media diplomacy and public diplomacy. His most recent publications include Media and Conflict: Framing Issues, Making Policies, Shaping Opinions (2002); articles published in Political Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Harvard International Journal of Press Politics, Journal of Dispute Resolution and Georgetown Journal of International Affairs; and chapters published in: J. Oetzel & S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication (2006), and P. Seib (Ed.), New Media and the New Middle East (2007).

Kelton Rhoads currently serves as adjunct professor of Communications and Psychology at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, and also at the U.S. Air Force's Joint Special Operations University. He has also served as Senior Mentor for PSYOP forces at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School in Ft. Bragg, NC. He holds a doctorate in Social Psychology, with an emphasis in Influence, from Arizona State University. Rhoads has studied and practiced persuasion for years as a grant writer, a public relations officer, and a director of marketing and communications. Since the mid-1990s, he has consulted for various government and defense agencies, political campaigns, banking firms, non-profit organizations, educational agencies, public relations firms, and medical entities, helping people apply the principles of influence to real-world situations.

Philip Seib is a professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy at USC’s Annenberg School. He concentrates on the linkages between media, war, and terrorism, as well as public diplomacy issues. Seib joined USC from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was the Lucius W. Nieman Professor of Journalism. He was also the director of Marquette’s Nieman Symposia, examining current journalism issues. He is author or editor of fifteen books, including: Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict; and Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War. His most recent book, Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War, was published in 2006, and he is currently working on two books about media in the Middle East. He is also the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication and is co-editor of the journal Media, War, and Conflict, published by Sage.