The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School has announced the Research Fellows for 2011-13: Michele Acuto, Sarah Graham and R.S. Zaharna. Acuto's CPD research project, The Diplomacy of Sustainability: Are Global Cities the New Climate Leaders?, will examine how metropolises respond to transnational, long-term, and persistent problems in world politics, and how they devise strategic linkages to provide urban solutions to global challenges. Graham's research, U.S. Public Diplomacy and Indo-American Relations, will survey the Indo-US diplomatic relationship throughout the post-war period, and investigate the role (and probable failure) of U.S. public diplomacy in India. The goal of Zaharna’s CPD research project, Exploring the Cultural Underbelly of Public Diplomacy, is to stimulate greater awareness and knowledge of how culture influences public diplomacy and help generate multicultural perspectives of public diplomacy. "These non-resident fellows come to the Center with a broad range of expertise and will undoubtedly enhance the field of public diplomacy through their research findings,” said Philip Seib, journalism professor and CPD Director.