Dr. Lisa Parks

The Humanities Institute is delighted to welcome its first faculty fellow, Dr. Lisa Parks from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018, Dr. Parks directs the Global Media and Technologies and Cultures Lab. Author of the 2018 book Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (Routledge), Parks is working on a new book project, titled Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies, while in residence at UM’s Humanities Institute. This spring, she will also partner with the recently opened Innovation Factory and serve as an advisor for the HI’s new initiative in the digital humanities.

Dr. Martin Nekola

Dr. Martin Nekola received his doctorate in political science at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His research is focused on non-democratic regimes, the era of Communism, Czech communities abroad and the East-European anti-communist exiles in the USA during the Cold War. From time to time he participates in the election observation missions organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He is the member of Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEES), he is the author of more than three hundred articles and has published eighteen books. He is also Czechoslovak Talks Project coordinator.