Nicholas J. Cull

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Nicholas J. Cull
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Occupation
Harkness Fellow)
Period1995–present
SubjectPropaganda theory
Mass media history
Cold War
Notable worksSelling War (1995)
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989 (2008)

Nicholas J. Cull (born 1964) is a historian and professor in the Master's in

Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California
. He was the founding director of this program and ran it from 2005 to 2019.

Career

Cull earned both his

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

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. He coined the term reputational security
for a category of enhanced security that comes to an international actor when they are well thought of by external audiences.

Cull is past president of 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) and continued in this role until January 2019. He has been featured in a number of documentary films including Memory: The Origins of Alien
(2019).

He has held visiting appointments at

Green Templeton College/Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
.

Publications

Both Cull's first book, Selling War (

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

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 Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Polity, 2019). His most recent edited works are with Nancy Snow Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2020) and Michael Hawes Canada's Public Diplomacy (Palgrave, 2020).

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