Anja Herzog, M.A.

Anja Herzog, M. A., (born 1964) studied Slavistics and History at the University of Hamburg and journalism at the University of St. Petersburg. As a student, she worked on numerous projects at the Hans Bredow Institute, as well as on the International Media Handbook. She was subsequently responsible for constructing a “Netzwerk unabhängiger Medienforschung in Mittel- und Osteuropa” (Network of Independent Media Research in Central and Eastern Europe). In the context of the project, “European Association for Viewers’ Interests”, she worked on the preparations for founding a European viewers’ association. She is a member at the research centre “European Media and Public Spheres” (EuroMaPS) at the University of Hamburg, promoting the exchange of research on questions of European integration and the European public sphere(s). She is also involved in research dealing with the role of the media with regard to the involvement of citizens on a European level and the formation of a European identity. She has been also dealing with tasks of overall research organisation and project acquisition in the context of a back-office position at the board of directors since April 2007. Beside this, she works on the editing of the International Media Handbook and is a member of the organisation team for the 3rd ECREA Conference (European Communication Research and Education Association), which will be hosted by the Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg in October 2010.