Kevin V. Mulcahy

Evaluation

Dr. Mulcahy’s primary area of study focuses on cultural policy in the United States and abroad. Dr. Mulcahy has received an ATLAS (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) grant for his book, Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy: Comparative Perspectives. The award committee enthusiastically endorsed his project, saying in part:

"Dr. Mulcahy is uniquely qualified to undertake this study; His training is in public policy and administration with a special emphasis on foreign policymaking. He is well-published. In addition, his narrative career account reveals that he has spent a lot of time in all sorts of countries working on international cultural policy in some form or another.

As presented in the proposal, the project is strongly conceived, defined, and organized. Noteworthy is Dr. Mulcahy’s enthusiasm for the project one gets the impression that this is a labor of love as well as a scholarly pursuit. As he describes his project in the proposal, it comes alive in the mind of the reader. This promises that his book will do the same."^[3]

In book, America’s Commitment to Culture Public Policy and the Arts, Dr. Mulcahy discussed the current state of arts funding in the U.S. and argue for the reorganization of the National Endowment for the Arts to include interdisciplinary panels for judging new grants in a system similar to that of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Prior to initiating his primary study of cultural policy, in the footsteps of his mentor Cecil V. Crabb, Dr. Mulcahy focused on American foreign policy. Mulcahy and Crabb coauthored two books on the subject: Presidents and Foreign Policy Making: FDR to Reagan (1986), American National Security: A Presidential Perspective (1990), and several articles.

Books

• Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy: Comparative Perspectives, (New York: Palgrave Mcmillian 2017). Chinese edition (Shenzhen: Commercial Press 2017)
• America's Commitment to Culture: Government and the Arts, co-editor with Margaret J. Wyszomirski, and principal contributor (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).
• American National Security: A Presidential Perspective, co-author with Cecil V. Crabb, Jr. (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1990).
• The Challenge to Reform Arts Education, co-editor with David-Pankratz (New York: American Council for the Arts, 1989).
• Presidents and Foreign Policy Making: FDR to Reagan, co-author with Cecil V. Crabb, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.) Included in "The Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series" edited by Kenneth W. Thompson.
• Public Public and the Arts, co-editor with C. Richard Swaim, and principal contributor (Boulder, CO; Westview Press, 1982)
• America Votes, co-author with Richard S. Katz (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1976); Japanese Edition, new introduction (Tokyo: Keibundo, 1979)

Book Chapters and Journal Articles (2007-2017)

• "NEA and Grantmaking for Health-related Programs." 2017. Rivista Economia Della Cultura, 27(2),213-18.
• "Reflections on Public Culture." 47(4) Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society: 290-94.
• Mulcahy, Kevin V. and Naquin, Thomas C., 2016, Merchandizing Museum: "The Unanticipated Consequences of the American System of Cultural Patronage?" In Transforming Nostalgia Into Novelty. Kaoshiung, Taiwan. National Science and Technology Museum.
• "Coloniality: The Cultural Policy of Post-Colonialism." 2016. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22(2), 1:17.
• “L’Analyse Comparative des Politiques Culturelles Infranationales” (collaborating author), Loisir et Société 34 (Fall, 2012) : 149-86
• "Globalization and Culture: The Case of Canada and the United States." Journal for Communication Studies, (Spring 2012): 151-162. (In Social Science Research Archives).
• “Counter Reformation Cultural Policy: The Case of St. Peter’s,” International Journal of Cultural Policy, (March 2011); 131-152. Religion and Cultural Policy, edited by Oliver Bennett (Taylor and Francis)
• “Coloniality and Cultural Policy,” in International Relations, Culture and Global Finance. Akis Kalaitzidis, editor (Athens: Aitner Publications 2011): 199-212.
• “Privatisation ou Darwinisme: Le Système Américain pour la Subvention des Arts aux États-Unis” in Claudine Audet and Diane St. Pierre (eds.) Tendances et Défis des Politiques Culturelles dans les Pays Occidentaux. (Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010.), pp. 89–130.
• “The Book that Most Influenced my Study of Cultural Policy Research: A Review Essay” International Journal of Cultural Policy Research, 16(February 2010): 60-62.
• Executive Editor, "New Zealand Cultural Policy: The Helen Clark Years." Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, (Spring 2010); Introduction: 3-94
• “Coloniality, Identity and Cultural Policy” in J. P. Singh (ed.), International Cultural Policies and Power, (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2010), pp. 155–165.
• “Identity, Independence, and Imperialism: The Case of Canadian-American Cultural Relations” in Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale (eds.), Borders and Bridges: Canada’s Policy Relations in North America, (Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 248–266.
• "Vorsicht Kulturdarwinismus: Die Grenzen des Amerikanischen Systems der Kulturfoderung, 1990-2006" in Thomas Adam, Simone Lassig and Gabrielle Lingelbach (eds.), Stifter, Spender und Mazene: USA und Deutschland im historischen Vergleich, (stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009):, pp.191-218.
• Executive Editor, "International Issues in Arts Management, Law and Society" Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 39 (Summer 2009): Introduction, pp.83-85
• Executive Editor, "Varieties of Non-National Cultural Policies." Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 38 (Fall 2008): 217-228
• "Hurricane Katrina: A Cultural Chernobyl" with Jerry McKernan, J.D., Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 38 (Fall2008): 217-228
• "Identity and Cultural Policy" in Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States. Joni Cherbo, Ruth Ann Stewart and Margaret Wyszomirski, editors (New Brunswick, NJ: Ruthers University Press, 2008). Translated into Romanian by Dr. Dan-Eugen Ratiu. Politica cultura si artele: local, national, global. (Cluj-Napoca: Cosa Cartii de Stina, 2012), pp. 21-38
• Executive Editor, "Emerging Researchers in Australia and Asia," Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 38 (summer 2008).
• Executive Editor, "EU Enlargement and European Cultural Policy Development," Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 37 (Winter 2007)

Fulbright activities

In 2002, Dr. Mulcahy was selected as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies (The Laszlo Orszagh Chair) at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. The Fulbright Program is a merit-based grant program that encourages academic exchanges between the United States and other countries. In 2009, Mulcahy served as the Fulbright Senior Specialist in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania at Babeș-Bolyai University. For the 2010-2011 award period, he was selected to serve on the review committee as the Fulbright Senior Specialist where he worked to select American scholars for international assignments.^[1] Dr. Mulcahy also reviewed applications in Public Policy for the U.S. Romanian Fulbright Commission 2013.

Conferences (2007-2017)

From the beginning of his career in 1978, Dr. Mulcahy has participated in major professional meetings and conferences at home and abroad. His talks on cultural policy have taken him across the United States and abroad to Shenzhen, China; Athens, Greece; Jyvaskyla, Finland; Istanbul, Turkey; Quebec City, Quebec; Grenada, Spain; Kaohsiung and Taipei, Taiwan; and Haifa, Israel; Berger, Norway; Auckland, New Zealand; Brushland, Australia.^[1]

• Keynote Speaker, "American System of Cultural Patronage: The Case of Museums", Observatoire des politiques culturelles, April 27, 2018
• Keynote Speaker, "L'Avenir de les Culture Publique" University of Liege, April 23,2018
• Keynote Speaker, "The American System of Cultural Patronage, April 5,2018
• Podcast Guest, Jaques Episode 25 with Emprendimieto Creativo, April 4, 2018
• Keynote Speaker, "Cultural Policy in Digital-Age Cities", Conference on Cultural Industries in the Digital-Age, Institute of Cultural Industries, Shenzhen University, China, November 10-12, 2017.
• Paper Presentation, "Commercializing Culture: The Merchandising of Museums," Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. Minneapolis. MN, October 12-14, 2017.
• Keynote Speaker, "Identity and Internal Colonality , Conference on Social Theory, Policies and Neails," Montreal, October 18-19, 2016.
• Keynote Speaker, International Conference on the Commercialization of Museums, Tianan National University of the Arts and the National Science and Technology Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 2–3, 2015.
• Keynote Speaker, Conference on the Commercializing of Museums, National Museum of Science and Technology, Sun-yat Sen University, October 2-3, 2015
• Paper Presentation. "Combating Colonality: Cultural Policies and Post- Colonialism." International Conference on Social Theory Policy and the Arts, University of Ottawa, Canada, October 9-11, 2014
• Paper Presentation. "Command Culture: National Socialist Cultural Policy". International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, University of Hildesheim, Germany, September 2014.
• Chercheur, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique du Canada, 2009-2014.
• Paper Presentation. "The Cultural Impact of Hurricane Katrina." Colloque, "Esthetisation de l'Espace Publique." Universite de Grenoble, November 25-December 17, 2013.
• Paper Presentation. "The Olympic Games and the Performing Arts: Sports, Spectacle, Politics". Conference on Cultural and Technological Innovation. University of Shenzhen, November 20-24, 2013.
• Participant and Keynote Speaker, Cultural Workshop, University of Haifa, Israel, March 2013.
• Paper Presentation "Colonality and Cultural Identity." Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. Seattle University. October 10-12, 2013.
• Scholar-in-Residence, Observatorio Politico, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2012.
• Paper Presentation, "Olympic Opening Ceremonies: A Comparative Perspective," International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Barcelona, Spain, July 2012.
• paper Presentation. "L'Acadiane en tant qu'espace culturel cajun." Societe quebecoise de scientifique politique. Universite d'Ottawa, Quebec, May 17-18, 2012.
• Paper Presentation. "Acadiana and the Cajun Cultural Space: Adaptation, Accommodation, Authenticity." 40th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 18-20, 2012.
• Convener and Organizer. 40th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. Lod Cook Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 18–20, 2012. (This was a major undertaking requiring creating a Conference website; a list serve for calls for papers, vetting paper submissions, logistical work on hotel rooms, meals and refreshments, conference panels)
• Professeur Invité, " La Système de Promouvoir et Soutien les Affaires Culturelles aux États-Unis," Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université de Strasbourg, December 12–21, 2011.
• Keynote Speaker, “Performing Arts Organizations as International Sports/City Events: The Case of the ‘36 Berlin, ‘84 Los Angeles, and ‘08 Beijing Olympics,” Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. November 18–19, 2011.
• Paper Presentation, "Counter-Reformation Cultural Policy," Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, University of Kentucky, October 17-20, 2011.
• Keynote Speaker. "'Culturecide' :The Cultural Consequences of Hurricane Katrina on the Folk Life of New Orleans," Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, October 14-16, 2010.
• Paper Presentation, "Constructing Identity: Colonality and Cultural Policy," Conference on Politics and International Affairs, Athens, Greece, June 21-24, 2010.
• Paper Presentation, "American Cultural Policy: 'Hidden Hand' Patronage," International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 26-29, 2010.
• Paper Presentation, "Colonality and Cultural Identity: The Cases of Quebec, Mexico, and the Islamic World," International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 19-20, 2010.
• Paper Presentation, "Political Sovereignty and Cultural Imperialism: The Case of Canadian-American Cultural Relations," Meetings of the American Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, San Diego, November 18-21, 2009
• Paper Presentation, "Colonality, Identity and Cultural Policy," International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Istanbul, August 28-30, 2008
• Paper Presentation, "Privatisation ou Darwinisme: Le systeme americain de la subvention culturelle," Colloque International sur les Tendances et defis des politiques culturelles dans les pays Occidentaux (ACFAS), Quebec City, May 7-8, 2008.
• Roundtable Participant, "Museums and the Role of Government," California Association of Museums, Fresno, California, February, 2008.
• Roundtable Participant, "American Cultural Imperialism," Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, New York University, New York October 2007.
• Paper Presentation, "Identity and Cultural Policy," International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Services, Granada, Spain, July 2007.
• Paper Presentation, "The Cultural Manager as Global Citizens," Helsinki, Finland, April 19-20, 2007

Visiting Professor and Scholar in Residence (2007-2017)

• Keynote Speaker, :Cultural Policy in Digital-Age Cities", Conference on Cultural Industries in the Digital-Age, Institute of Cultural Industries, Shenzhen University, China, November 10-12, 2017.
• Keynote Speaker, Conference on the Commercialization of Museums, Tianan National University of the Arts and the National Science and Science and Technology Museum, Kaoshuing, Taiwan, October 2-3 2015.
• Participant, Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, University if Ottawa, Canada, October 9-11, 2014.
• Participant, 2014 International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, University of Hildesheim, Germany September 9-13, 2014.
• Chercheur, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique de Canada, 2009-2014
• Professeur invite, Institut national d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, 2013; Universite de Strasbourg, 2011
• Guest Researcher, Institute for Cultural Industries, Shenzhen University, 2013-2017
• Participant and Keynote Speaker, Cultural Workshop, University of Haifa, Israel, March 2013.
• Scholar-in-Residence, Observatorio Politico, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2013, July 2012.
• Keynote Speaker, "Performing Arts Organizations as Internal Sports/ City Events: The Case of the '36 Berlin, '84 Los Angeles, and '08 Beijing Olympics," Sun yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. November 12-19, 2011
• Authors' Round Table, "Models of Comparative Cultural Policy Making," Musee des Arts Decoratifs du Louvre, Paris, July 9-12, 2010
• Fulbright Senior Specialist, Babes-Boylai University, Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania, October-November 2009
• Authors' Roundtable, Borders and Bridges: Navigating Canada's international Policy Relations in a North America Context, University of Ottawa, October 16-18, 2008.
• Visiting Lecturer, Strategic Planning on the Development of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management Programs, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, July 19-August 2,2008
• Keynote Speaker, "Privatisation ou Darwinisme: Le Systeme pour la Subvention des Arts auz Etats-Unis," Colloque International sur les Tendances et Defis des Politiques Culturelles dans les Pays Occidentaux, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec City, May 2008.
• Invited Participant, "The Cultural Manger as Global Citizen." Helsinki, Finland, April 19-20, 2007. (Proceedings in Constance Deveraux and Pekka Vartiainen, eds,. The Cultural Manager as Global Citizen (Helsinki: HUMAK Press, 2008).
• Keynote Speaker, "International Symposium on Theater Arts and Cultural Administration: Transformation and Imagination," Sun yat-sen University, Kaosiung, Taiwan, November 2007.

Editorial

Since 1990, Dr. Mulcahy has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society (JAMLS), and served as Executive Editor from 1998-2016; Emeritus Executive Editor, 2017.Below is a list of journal editions edited and introduced by Dr. Mulcahy in issues of JAMLS.

• Executive Editor, “New Zealand Cultural Policy: the Helen Clark Years”, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society (Spring 2010);
• Executive Editor, “International Issues in Arts Management, Law and Society”, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 39 (Summer 2009); Introduction.
• Executive Editor, “Varieties of Non-National Cultural Policies.” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 38 (Fall 2008); Introduction, 163–165.
• Executive Editor, “Emerging Researchers in Australia and Asia”, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 38 (Summer 2008).
• Executive Editor, “EU Enlargement and European Cultural Policy Development”, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 37 (Winter 2007).
• Executive Editor, “Cultural Development,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 36 (Fall 2006).
• Executive Editor, “Austrian Cultural Policy,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 35 (Winter 2006).
• Executive Editor, “Cultural Policies in Australia,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 35 (Spring 2005).
• Executive Editor, “The Conceptualization of Art,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 34 (Summer 2004).
• Executive Editor, “Culture and Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 33 (Fall 2003).
• Executive Editor, “The Cultural Market and Public Cultural Agencies,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 32 (Spring 2002).
• Executive Editor, “Cultural Politics: Global and Local,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 31 (Winter 2002).
• Executive Editor, “The Nordic Cultural Policies,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 30 (Spring 2001).
• Executive Editor, “Not-for-profit Cultural Sector in Post-Socialist States,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 29 (Spring 2000).
• Executive Editor, “Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War Era,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 28 (Spring 1999).
• Executive Editor, “The Arts and Entertainment in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 27 (Winter 1998).

Governmental

Dr. Mulcahy had an active role in cultural politics at the Louisiana State Legislature as a National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities in State Legislature. From 1980 to 1982, Dr. Mulcahy served as the Cultural Adviser to the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. From 1982 to 1984, he served as Chairman of the Louisiana House of Representatives Arts Advisory Committee where he coordinated three museums and three public agencies in placing artwork in the House of Representatives and coordinated the State Capitol and a National Historic landmarks. He continued serving on the committee from 1987 to 1992.^[1] Dr. Mulcahy was awarded an Honorary State Legislator in 1982. In 2010, Dr. Mulcahy was commended for his service to the arts in a House Resolution.

In 1990, Dr. Mulcahy testified to a U.S. presidential commission in opposition to the existing peer review system on the National Endowment for the arts as an expert witness. The National Endowment for the Arts later reorganized into four purpose-based categories as was advised the organization has since reverted to its pre-1995 structure.^[4]

For many years he reviewed great applications in for the Baton Rouge Arts Counsel. He was a member of community allocation and applications committee 1999-2006; Chair. Arts in Public Places Committee 2000-2006; Member, Board of Directors, Baton Rouge Arts Council, and adjudicated the case of a public art work deemed as a "satanic."

Academic

In addition to having served as a reviewer for tenure and promotional decisions at several American universities, he assisted several non-American universities including, the University of South Australia, Adelaide in reviewing Doctoral Dissertations and fulfilling the role of foreign reviewer. Deakin University, Melbourne, University of Singapore, and University of Maura.

At Louisiana State University, Professor Mulcahy currently lectures on political witch-hunts, genocide as cultural policy, public policy, and American Government. In the past, at Louisiana State University, he had served as an undergraduate advisor in the Department of Political Science and sat on the Organizational Relief Fund committee in the Faculty Senate, where he helped allocate aid to clubs on campus. He also served on Committee on the Humanities Research and Development Group in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research by having served.

Dr. Mulcahy served variously as President, First Vice-President and member of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate. He had also served as a Faculty Friend for the LSU Honors College.^[1]