Team • From Dallas to Berlin on Demand • Department of Political and Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Joachim Trebbe

Project Lead at Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Gisela Dachs

Project Lead at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens

Research Assistant at Freie Universität Berlin

Anna Smoliarova, PhD

Anna Smoliarova, PhD, is a researcher at the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After defending PhD in Political Science in 2014, she has been focusing on research on diaspora media in the Russian language, media consumption of Russian-speaking migrants worldwide, and their global communication via social media platforms. Since April 2024, she has been part of the DFG-funded German-Israeli research project "From Dallas to Berlin on Demand: The Transnationalization of Meaning? A Multilevel Replication Study in Israel and Germany”.
Her research interests include global communication, migration research, international journalism, public diplomacy, computational methods of media research.

Team

Zeynep Altundağ, M. A.

Research Assistant at Freie Universität Berlin

Assaf Uni, M. A.

Assaf Uni is a PhD candidate in the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) as well as in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, (Germany). His doctoral research focuses on German-Israeli relations and specifically on perceptions of Germaness, as portrayed in fictional streaming content, among Israeli audiences. Since April 2024, he is part of the DFG-funded German-Israeli research project "From Dallas to Berlin on Demand: The Transnationalization of Meaning? A Multilevel Replication Study in Israel and Germany” as a pre-doctoral researcher. He has also worked as a journalist, based in Berlin, covering European affairs for Israeli media. His main topics of research are media & Communication and German-Israeli relations. (https://x.com/AssafUni)