Ongoing PhD Projects
Irit Neumann: The evolution and characteristics of knowledge and expertise among communicators of science and technology
- PhD Project at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Communication
- Primary Supervisor:Zvika Reich (BGU)
Karen Ornat: Memory-based stereotypes in the coverage of foreign out-groups
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication
Avital Zalik: Representative intentionality: Claim-making, speech acts, and the acceptance of meaning
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication
Completed PhD Projects
Dr. Cristina Monzer: Aligning and deviating voices: Toward a theory of cultural resonance in political communication.
- PhD Project successfully completed on 13 September 2024 at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science
- Primary Supervisor: Stefan Geiss (NTNU)
- Co-Supervisor: Toril Aalberg (NTNU)
Dr. Olga Pasitselska: Reception of ideological narratives in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: Negotiating trust, meaning, and identity
- PhD Project successfully completed on 1 December 2022 at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication
Dr. Konrad Bleyer-Simon: When foreign support becomes a liability: Funding independent journalism in the authoritarian media landscapes of Russia and Hungary
- PhD Project successfully defended on 27 September 2022 within the International Graduate School on Human Rights under Pressure at Free University Berlin & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Primary Supervisor: Christian Volk (Free University Berlin)
Dr. Sandra Simonsen: Media Securitization: How national media cover migration and its empirical conditions
- PhD Project successfully completed on 27 July 2022 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication
- Co-Supervisor: Carsten Bagge Laustsen (Aarhus University)

- PhD Project successfully defended on 17 July 2019 at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Department of Communication Studies
- supported by the European Union FP7 Collaboration Grant Project INFOCORE
- Co-Supervisor: Romy Fröhlich
PhD Thesis Committees
Noëlle Lebernegg: Mediated misperceptions and the linguistic structure of deception
- PhD Project at University of Vienna, Department of Communication
- Supervised by Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Moritz Laurer: Language models as measurement tools: Using instruction-based models to increase validity, robustness and data efficiency
- PhD Project at Vrije University Amsterdam, Department of Communication
- Supervised by Wouter van Atteveldt (VU Amsterdam), Andreu Casas Salleras (University of London), and Kasper Welbers (VU Amsterdam)
Maximilian Overbeck: Die Rückkehr der Religion in die politische Öffentlichkeit Eine korpusanalytische Untersuchung religiöser Frames in westlichen Mediendebatten über bewaffnete Konflikte nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges (1990 – 2012) [The return of religion into the political public sphere: A corpus analytic investigation of religious frames in Western media debates about armed conflicts after the end of the Cold War (1910 – 2012]
- PhD Project at Stuttgart University, Department of Political Science
- Supervised by Cathleen Kantner
PhD Advisory Committees
Gilad Beeri:
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Public Policy
- Supervised by Dmitry Epstein
Gilad Hurwitz:
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Political Science
- Supervised by Orit Kedar
Ariel Paz-Sawicki: The resources curses: Why does the discovery of fossil fuels erode democratic principles in developed democracies
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of International Relations
- Supervised by Lior Herman
Avital Sicron: Dismantling legitimacy: How the Israeli public began to doubt the Supreme Court
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Sociology
- Supervised by Eva Illouz
Tali Aharoni: The ecology of news (dis)trust
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication
- Supervised by Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
Dror Markus: Understanding long-term dynamics of media attention
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Political Science / Department of Communication
- Supervised by Tamir Sheafer and Shaul Shenhav
Zachary Rosenzweig: Dimensions of cultural resonance: Understanding culture in contemporary political discourse
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Political Science / Department of Communication
- Supervised by Tamir Sheafer and Meital Balmas Cohen
Edith Bouton
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education
- Supervised by Christa Asterhan
Tracy Adams: Importing memory: Using other nations' collective memory in political speeches
- PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Sociology
- Supervised by Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi
Mentorship
Christian Baden is a mentor in the ICA Journalism Studies Division Mentorship Program, the ICA Political Communication Division Mentorship Program, the ECREA Political Communication Section Mentorship Program for young scholars, and the WISER Mentoring Program.

