PhD Candidates
Completed PhD (Supervision)
Dr. Almut Woller
Dissertation: "Thesis: Remembering anarchism in the Arab Spring in digital media. Omar Aziz and the Syrian local councils"
Dr. Amal Dib
Dissertation: "The Un(Civil) War. Media Framing and Memory Construction in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon"
Dr. Mina Naeli
Dissertation: "Exploring the impacts of internet-mediated communication on Iranian women‘s rights activism"
Dr. Leyla Ghavam
Dissertation: "The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: Representations of Iran(ians) in Mainstream European News Sites"
Dr. des. Martin Schiller
Dissertation: "Prerogatives of interpretation in foreign policy. An Analysis of Foreign news reporting in France and Germany on the 2011 Upheavals in North Africa"
Dr. Omneya Nour Eddin
Dissertation: "Rethinking the Dimensions of Comparing Media Systems in Authoritarian Regimes: An Analysis of Post Arab Spring Media Systems in Egypt and Tunisia"
Completed PhD (Co-Supervision)
Dr. Ingy Al-Sayed
Dissertation: "Framing of Lebanon War 2006 in the Egyptian Press"
Dr. Anna Antonakis
Dissertation: "In Transformation? - renegotiating Gender and State Feminism in Tunisia between 2011 and 2014: Power, Positionalities and the Public Sphere"
Dr. Marlen Bartsch
Dissertation: "Der Bertelsmann-Konzern und die französische Medienpolitik. Analysen der Strategien, Medienberichterstattung und parlamentarischen Debatten"
Dr. Simon Berghofer
Dissertation: "Globale Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik im Wandel. Konzeptualisierung und Analyse eines dynamischen Politikbereichs aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive“
Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm
Dissertation: "Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt"
Dr. Maïté Kersaint
Dissertation: "Exploring Public Diplomacy 2.0. A Comparison of German and U.S. Digital Public Diplomacy in Theory and Practice”
Dr. Sebastian Sons
Dissertation: “Daily Presence, Public Absence: The Practices, Strategies, and Content of Pakistani Media Actors concerned with Labor Migration to Saudi Arabia”
Dr. Sabrina Zahren
Dissertation: "Saudi Influencers on YouTube. The global, regional and national dimension of audio-visual content in digital capitalism"
Dr. Andrei Zavadski
Dissertation: “Mnemonic Counterpublics: Challenging the Political Regime in Russia with Memories of the 1990s"
