Barry Fulton
Research Professor

Phone: (202) 994-0389
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: rbfulton@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 410

Expertise

Public Diplomacy, International Studies, Cultural Affairs

Courses Taught

PCM 190, Public Diplomacy
PCM 196, Independent Study
SMPA 199, Senior Seminar

Selected Works

Background

Barry Fulton is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and teaches public diplomacy at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. He retired from the Foreign Service as a Minister-Counselor after a 30-year career with the United States Information Agency.

President Clinton named Fulton as Associate Director for Information of the United States Information Agency in 1994 where he served until joining the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1997. Prior to his presidential nomination, he was acting director of USIA's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. His last posting abroad, from 1987 to 1991, was in Brussels where he served as Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Mission to NATO. He has earlier diplomatic assignments in Rome, Tokyo, Karachi, and Islamabad.

He established and directed the American Forces Radio and Television Service in Turkey where he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He has been an adjunct professor at American University; has taught part-time at the University of Maryland, University of Illinois, San Antonio College, and the Pennsylvania State University; and has lectured at numerous universities and organizations.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Diplomacy Foundation and is also a board member of Info/Change, a nonprofit consortium founded to expand affordable access to information and communication technologies in developing countries. He has recently been named to a study group at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to examine the Information Revolution and World Politics. He is a Yale-Stimson fellow and a member of the Highlands Forum, a DOD-sponsored activity concerned with new technologies.

Fulton is the recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Honor Award, the Vice President's Hammer Award for Reinvention in Government, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His languages are Italian and French.

Education

Ph.D., Communications, University of Illinois
M.A., Broadcasting, Pennsylvania State University
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University