Native of Croatia, she came to United States in 2003 to pursue her graduate education in journalism and mass communication. She received her PhD at the University of Iowa in 2008. Marina Vujnovic is an author of Forging the Bubikopf Nation: Journalism, Gender and Modernity in Interwar Yugoslavia, co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers, and co-editor of Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions.