Nick Hayes is a writer, professor and commentator for the media. A frequent guest on television and radio, he has also published nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines and journals. He has received awards from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Program and also won an Emmy in 1991 for his work on Twin Cities Public Television's (TPT's) Television and Democracy in Russia. Today, he is a professor of history and holds the university chair in critical thinking at Saint John's University in Minnesota and is a contributing writer for wwww.MinnPost.com - the premier political blog in Minnesota. He is currently working on a new book - Looking for Leningrad comprising his memoirs and essays on Russia from 1978 to the present. And One Fine Morning Memories of My Father (2010) is his first book of creative non-fiction. For more information, go to www.nickhayes.org.