VICKO MARELIĆ (London, 1983) is a freelance journalist and researcher at the University of Vienna. His PhD in history explores the Eastern Adriatic as a transnational entity in the late 19th to the mid-twentieth century. Previously he studied at King’s College London and Sciences Po, Paris. In 2013, he worked for the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna as an editorial assistant of the multilingual IWM magazine. Currently, he is writing about the borderland dynamics of Istria for the forthcoming book Ethno-Political Conflicts Between the Adriatic and the Aegean in the 1940s on behalf of the research platform Wiener Osteuropaforum.