Paulina BrenPaulina Bren is an award-winning historian and a professor at Vassar College in New York, where she teaches international studies, gender, and media. She is the author of a prizewinning book about soap operas and communism behind theIron Curtain and a coeditor of a collection on consumerism in the Eastern Bloc. She was born in the former Czechoslovakia and attended Wesleyan University as an undergraduate, later receiving an MA degree in international studies from the University of Washington and a PhD in history from New York University. She has held a host of research grants and fellowships, including residencies in Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, and Atlanta. Read More Read Less