Anna Di Lellio is a co-founder of the Kosovo Oral History Initiative. She is a Professor of Politics at the International Relations of The New School for Public Engagement’s graduate program, and at New York University’s International Relations program. Di Lellio holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, and a master's degree in Public Policy from New York University. Her research and publications focus on Kosovo, where she taught and worked as an officer to the United Nations-led international administration. In 2015, she received the Presidential Medal of Merits from the President of the Republic of Kosovo for her contribution toward the field of freedom of speech. Prof. Di Lellio is the editor of The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence (Anthem 2006), and the author of The Battle of Kosovo 1389: An Albanian Epic (I.B. Tauris 2009).