Supervision

 

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 MonzerCultural 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

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

 

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.