Our Team: Management and Organization

Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez

Prof. Dr. Patrick Rössler

Dr. Anne Grüne

  • Coordinator and Study Advisor of the Master's-Program Global Communication: Politics and Society
  • Research Associate/Senior Lecturer at the Department for Media- and Communication Studies
  • Teaching in the Program: Introduction to Theories and Methodology of Global Comparative Media and Communication Research, Social/Cultural Communication in international comprison, qualitative Methods in international comparisons
  • regional Focus: Egypt, Southeast Asia, Europe

Dr. Sabrina Schmidt

  • Research Assistant at the Chair of Communication Studies/International Comparison of Media Systems and Communication Cultures
  • Organizational management of the Master's program Global Communication: Politics and Society
  • teaching in the program: media and migration, gender and racism theory, methodology
  • regional focus: Europe, USA
Dr. Sabrina Schmidt

Our Team: Research Associates and Lecturers

Dr. Anja Wollenberg

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  • external lecturer
  • teaching in the program: International Media Assistance and Media and Political Transformation in Fragile States
  • regionaler focus: MENA-Region
  • Co-Founder ofMICT (Media in Cooperation and Transition) Berlin
  • Contact: anja.wollenberg@uni-erfurt.de
Kirsten Wünsche

Kirsten Wünsche, M.A.

  • Alumni of the Master of Global Communication: Politics and Society
  • external lecturer
  • Research assistant in the DFG-funded research project "Political Online-Influencer:ins as Intermediaries: New Constellations in Political Communication" at the University of Augsburg
  • Offer in the Master's Program: Bridging Course
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Dr. des. Augusto Junior Silva da Santos

  • PhD Candidate at the Chair for Comparative Analysis of Media Systems and Communication Cultures (Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez)
  • teaching in the program: Transnational Public Spheres, Foreign News Coverage, South-South Communication
  • regional focus: BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)

Dr. Francis Kahwe Mohammady

  • external lecturer
  • teaching in the program: international political communication, media framing and journalistic elite orientation
  • regional focus: Iran, Europe
  • Social-Media-editor in government communications
  • contact: francis.mohammady@uni-erfurt.de
Dr. Francis Kahwe Mohammady

Dr. Danny Schmidt

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  • external lecturer
  • teaching in the prorgam: Discourse Analysis, Nation Images, Forein Reporting, Political Education and Media Competence in international comparison
  • regional focus: Russia, Europe
  • Freelancer for workshops in the field of global learning and political education for sustainable development
  • Contact: danny-schmidt@web.de

Unser Team: ehemalige wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:innen und Lehrbeauftragte

Dr. Subekti W. Priyadharma

  • DAAD-Guest Lecturer (2023-2024)
  • lecturer at the Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD) Bandung, Indonesia
  • teaching in the Program: Communication for Social Change, ICT4D, New Media and Society, Media and Public Sphere
  • regional Focus: Southeast Asia, esp. Indonesia

Dr. Regina Cazzamatta

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  • Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Social Sciences, LUT School of Engineering Sciences, Lappeenranta Finland
  • Research Associate at the Department for Media and Communication Studies, Head of the DFG project "Disinformation Context and the Emergence of Fact-Checking Organizations in Europe and Latin America".
  • teaching in the program: Media Systems Comparisons, digital media transformation, international Journalism, Fact Checking, quantitative Methods
  • regional Focus: Latin America

Mufutau Kowalowe Muyiwa, M.A.

  • external lecturer, alumni of the Master's program Global Communication: Politics and Society
  • PhD candidate at the Chair for Comparative Analysis of Media Systems and Communication Cultures (Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez)
  • teaching in the program: Public Diplomacy
  • regional focus: Africa, esp. Nigeria, South Africa
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