Professor Nicholas Cull

Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, USA.

Nick has lectured at and assisted a number of foreign ministries, national cultural relations agencies and diplomatic academies around the world including those of the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands Switzerland, Japan and South Korea. He serves on the board of the Public Diplomacy Council of Washington DC. He has also worked with the EU, NATO and Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He is a well-known scholar of communication and culture in international history and politics. His books include Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age. (Polity, 2019,) and two volumes on the history of US public diplomacy: The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989 (Cambridge 2008) and The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989-2001 (Palgrave, 2012). His work as editor includes Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopaedia, 1500-present (ABC Clio, 2003) and The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy (2nd edition, Routledge, 2020). 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 a former editor of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, and past president of the International Association for Media and History. He has held visiting appointments at the Reuter’s Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, Public Diplomacy Center, Beijing Foreign Studies University and in the Cultural Diplomacy program (Rome) of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.