Nicholas J. Cull
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Professor Cull is the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the University of Southern California.
[edit] Biography
Cull came to USC from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, where he held the chair in American Studies and served as Director of the Centre for American Studies. 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.
Born in 1964, Cull earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. While a graduate student 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.
He is the president of the council of the International Association for Media and History, and has worked closely with the British Council's Counterpoint Think Tank.
[edit] Books
Nicholas J. Cull 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 ten 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 with David Carrasco of Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (2004).
