Prof. Nicholas J. Cull

Nicholas J. Cull is professor of Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.  Originally from Britain, he is a leading historian of the role of media and culture in foreign policy, and pioneer of public diplomacy studies.  His publications include books of the history of British and American public diplomacy and the standard introduction to the field: Public Diplomacy, Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Polity, 2019), available in Mandarin, Italian, Korean, Spanish and Persian translations.  He has developed the idea of Reputational Security as a way to respond to the more hostile contemporary international environment.  His book on this subject  Reputational Security: Refocussing Public Diplomacy for a Dangerous Age (Polity, 2023) is now in press.  He has assisted many foreign ministries and cultural agencies around the world espectially those of the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, and Switzerland.  His on-going projects include a complete history of the role of public diplomacy in the stuggle against Apartheid in South Africa.  In March 2023 he named ‘distinguished scholar’ by the diplomatic studies section of the International Studies Association.