Martin Marinos, 2015-2016 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow and a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh. His dissertation From Socialist Humanism to Neoliberal Populism: Two Regimes of Media in Late and Post-Socialist Europe examines how socialist and post-socialist mediascapes impact nations’ political discourses and ideologies. He graduated with a BA in History from SUNY Binghamton (2005) and an MA in Communication from the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University (2008).