Nadia Kaneva’s research draws on critical theories of culture, power, and communication to examine the intersections of media, ideologies, and markets in the post-Cold War context. Her work focuses on public diplomacy and nation branding as strategic instruments for the advancement of various actors’ claims to power. She is the editor of three books: Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities (Routledge, 2015), Branding Post-Communist Nations: Marketizing National Identities in the “New” Europe (Routledge, 2011), and, with Stewart Hoover, Fundamentalisms and the Media (Bloomsbury, 2009). Her research appears in numerous academic journals and edited collections, and she is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, and Public Diplomacy Journal.