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Language
  
English

Name
  
Nicholas Cull

Period
  
1995–present


Citizenship
  
Nationality
  
British

Role
  
Historian

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Occupation
  
Public diplomacy professorCultural and media historian

Alma mater
  
Princeton University(Harkness Fellow)

Books
  
The Cold War and the Unite, Propaganda and Mass Persuasi, Selling War: The British Pr, The Decline and Fall o, Projecting Tomorrow: Science F

Counter Propaganda: Past and Present


Nicholas J. Cull (born 1964) is a historian and the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

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Prof. Nicholas J. Cull Presentation | The Rise of New Diplomacy


Career

Cull earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. As a graduate, he studied at Princeton University 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, and from 1997 to 2005, chair in American Studies and Director of the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester.

Cull's research and teaching interests are broad and inter-disciplinary, and focus on public diplomacy, the role of advocacy, culture, exchange, broadcasting, and public opinion research in foreign policy. Cull has also worked more broadly on the history of propaganda, film, television and radio history and the role of mass media as a source for historical study. He is best known for detailed historical studies of the institutions behind public diplomacy and for emphasizing the importance of "listening" as a pre-condition for successful public diplomacy.

Cull is the president of the International Association for Media and History, and has worked closely with the British Council's Counterpoint Think Tank. He is also a member of the Public Diplomacy Council and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In April 2008, Cull's University of Southern California program was a co-winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy, awarded by the U.S. Department of State. In January 2012, he succeeded Simon Anholt as editor of the Journal of Place Branding and Public Diplomacy (published by Palgrave).

Publications

Both Cull's first book, Selling War (Oxford University Press, 1995), and The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) were recognized by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries as outstanding academic publications of the 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 official reference books of the year, and Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (2004; with David L. Carrasco).

With James Chapman, he has co-authored Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2009) and Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2013). His most recent single authored work is The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989–2001 (Palgrave, 2012).

References

Nicholas J. Cull Wikipedia