Dr. Dean Vuletic is a historian of contemporary Europe who specialises in the Eurovision Song Contest, including as a media commentator and public speaker. He began teaching the world’s first university course on Eurovision at New York University, and he authored the first-ever scholarly book on the history of Eurovision, Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD in modern European history from Columbia University, and he currently lectures at the University of Luxembourg.