Stuart Hall was born in 1932 in Kingston (Jamaica). In 1951, he went to Britain as a Rhodes Scholar and did his master’s at Merton College, University of Oxford. His political activism and intense engagement with Britain’s New Left did not let him complete his PhD. Hall became the founding editor of the New Left Review in 1960. His exemplary work with the Education Department of the British Film Institute paved the way for his lectureship in film and mass media studies at the University of London in 1961. Then, he went to the University of Birmingham to join Richard Hoggart, the founder-director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), in 1964. Later, as director of the Centre from 1968 to 1979, he helped promote collaborative research among staff and students and published his important essays “Situating Marx: Evaluations and Departures” (1972) and “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973). He joined Open University in 1979 as a professor of sociology and continued with the tradition of collaborative research, alongside teaching.