Professorship of Political Communication and Media

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Feddersen is professor of political communication and media at the Department of Communication and Media Research of the University of Fribourg. In her research, she focuses on the interactions and influences between politics, the media, and public opinion.

Alexandra Feddersen obtained her PhD in political science from the University of Geneva, where she taught during six years. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Forum for migration and population studies at the University of Neuchâtel. In 2017, she was invited by Prof. James Adams to be a visiting scholar at the department of political science of the University of California, Davis.