Barbara Pfetsch

Visiting Scholar
Professor
Communication & Media Policy
University of Hohenheim, Germany

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x222
E-Mail: pfetsch@fas.harvard.edu





Biographical Statement

Pfetsch is a professor of communication and media policy at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She previously held a position as senior researcher at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research and taught at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Mannheim. She was a fellow at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on comparative analyses of political communication and on media and the public sphere. She was one of the principal investigators in the EU-funded project "Europub.com," which looked at "The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres." Within this project, based on work in seven countries, she was responsible for the newspaper analyses. Pfetsch has published several books, including "Comparing Political Communication" (2004) and "Politische Kommunikationskultur" (2003), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.