Anita Buhin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Universidade Nova, Lisbon. She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in 2019. She holds a BA (2008) and MA degree (2011) in History and Croatian Language and Literature from the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, and an MA degree in Central European History from the Central European University in Budapest (2012). Since 2012 she collaborates as a researcher at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. In 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, she was also a lecturer at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula co-teaching the History of Leisure and Tourism and teaching Cultural Transformation of the Mediterranean after the World War II at the BA level. She is mostly interested in cultural history of socialist Yugoslavia in Mediterranean context, focusing on the relations of popular culture and tourism. At the moment, as her post-doctoral project, she deals with the phenomena of the so-called “galebovi” (seagulls) in socialist Yugoslavia, i.e. local young men who are engaging in sexual/romantic relationship with foreign tourists at the Adriatic. On the Yugoslav example she aims to trace various economic, cultural and social aspects of the phenomena in order to establish a research paradigm for the whole of the (Euro-)Mediterranean area in the time of the development of mass tourism. She presented her work on numerous conferences and published papers in English and Croatian. She edited two volumes and published her first monograph “Yugoslav Socialism ‘Flavoured with Sea, Flavoured with Salt’: Mediterranization of Yugoslav Popular Culture in the 1950s and 1960s under Italian Influences” (Srednja Europa: Zagreb 2022), soon to be translated in Croatian.