Ongoing PhD Projects
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
Cristina Monzer: Cultural Resonance as medium and outcome of power in framing contests
- PhD Project 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)
Completed PhD Projects
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
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 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 and the ECREA Political Communication Section Mentorship Program for young scholars.