Professor Nicholas J. Cull (born 1964) is a historian and the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the University of Southern California.
From 1997 to 2005 Cull was based at 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, and focus on Public Diplomacy, th...
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Professor Nicholas J. Cull (born 1964) is a historian and the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the University of Southern California.
From 1997 to 2005 Cull was based at 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, 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 the 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 precondition for successful public diplomacy.
Cull earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. While a graduate student he...
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