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Please contact the secretary Antje Wolters by email to make an appointment: antje.wolters@fu-berlin.de
2001 Free University Berlin, postdoctoral lecture qualification, Communication Studies
1991 University of Mannheim, PhD, Political Studies
1979-85 University of Mannheim, master, Political Studies
1983-84 UCLA, Political Studies, Fulbright Programm
2015-2017 Managing Director of the Institute for Media and Communication at the FU Berlin
2009-2011 Executive Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Free University Berlin
Since 2008 Professor for Communication Studies, communication theory and media impact studies, Free University Berlin
6/2005 Call for a professorship for comparing Communication Studies, University of Zurich
2001-2008 Professor für Communication Studies and media politics, University of Hohenheim
1994-2001 Research associate, Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB), Department of the Public and Social Movements
1992-1994 Academic assistant for Political Studies, University of Mannheim, Faculty for the Social Sciences
1986-1990 Research assistant, University of Mannheim, Political Studies and internationally comparing social researc,chair of Prof. Dr. Max Kaase, Faculty for the Social Sciences
2012-13 Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, C.A., Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
2006-07 Visiting Fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A., Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
1-6/1997 Fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A., Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
1993 German Marshall Fund, Travel Award for Younger German Scholars of American Politics, Washington, D.C.,
1991-92 Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Center for German and European Studies
2010 AcademiaNet - Excellent Researcher
2013-2015 Review Board of the Institute of Research Information and Quality, Berlin (iFQ)
2012-2017 Member of the Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (AWBI) of the German Science Foundation and Sub-Committee for Scientific Publishing
2012-2016 Executive Board of the European Communication Research Education Association (ECREA)
2012-2013 Selection Committee of the Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2013 Head
2012 Organizer of the Annual Conference of the German Association for Media and Communication Science “Mediapolis – Communication between boulevard und parliament” in Berlin
2010-2012 Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
2010-2012 Review Board of the DFG Querschnittsfachkollegium „Langfristprogramm”
since 2008 Head of the Review Board for Social Sciences of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
since 2011 Faculty of the Berlin Graduate School of Transnational Studies
2004-2010 Senate of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
2004-2008 Member of the Review Board for Social Sciences of the German Research FFoundation Foundation (DFG)
2008-2012 Board of the College-Research Group (KFG) "The Transformative Power of Europe", Freie Universität Berlin
2004-2010 Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
2003-2006 Director Research Committee 22 "Political Communication" of the International Political Science Association
2003-2011 Joint Publication Committee of Political Communication in the International Communication Association
2000-2006 Head of the joint working group „Politics and Communication” of the DGPuK and DVPW
since 2011 Javnost – The Public
since 2010 Publisher of the book series “Political Communication and a Democratic Public” Nomos Publishing Baden-Baden, since 2013 managing editor
since 2010 International Journal of Press/Politics
since 2008 Central European Journal of Communication
since 2007 Journal of Global Mass Communication
2003-2009 ICA Joint Publications Committee
since 2001 Book Series “Communication, Society and Politics, Cambridge University Press
2011-2014 The impact of online communication on the political public sphere - comparing agenda-building processes across countries and issue fields, project connected to the research group “Political Communication in the online world”, German Research Association (DFG)
2008-2010 Political Communication Culture in France – An empirical investigation in comparative perspective, German Research Association (DFG)
2007-2008 Political Communication in Transformative Democracies, collective project with Dr. Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds, raised by the British Academy of Sciences
2006-2008 Political Communication Culture in Western Europe – A Comparative Study (in nine countries), European Science Foundation, European Collaborative Research Projects in the Social Sciences & German Research Association (DFG)
2001-2005 „The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres” EU-Commission, Fifth Framework Programme, Key Action Socio-economic Research, Workpackage 2, Coordination Prof. Ruud Koopmans, WZB
1998-2001 „Pressekommentare und Öffentliche Meinung” (together with Friedhelm Neidhardt and Christiane Eilders), German Research Association (DFG) 1998-2001 „From the Melting Pot to Cultural Pluralism: Production and Consumption of Media by and for Ethnic and Minority Communities“,German Israeli Foundation for the Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
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