Scholarship
Mulcahy’s primary area of study focuses on cultural policy in the United States and abroad. Mulcahy has received an ATLAS (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) grant for a new work tentatively titled Patronage, Politics and Cultural Policy: International 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.
In his 1995 book, America’s Commitment to Culture, Dr. Mulcahy and co-editor Margaret J. Wyszomirski discuss the current state of arts funding in the U.S. and argue for a 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, Mulcahy focused on American Foreign Policy, in the footsteps of his mentor Cecil V. Crabb. Mulcahy and Crabb coauthored two books on the subject: Presidents and Foreign Policy Making: FDR to Reagan (1986) and American National Security: A Presidential Perspective (1990).
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