!!Margreth Lünenborg - Biography
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Margreth Lünenborg studied journalism and spatial planning at the University of Dortmund (1984 - 1990). In 1986/87, she completed a traineeship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen, a German daily. After completing her studies, she worked as a freelance journalist until 1996, in particular for Berlin’s public radio station, the SFB. From 1992 to 1996 she was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Hans Böckler Foundation (Berlin) and received her doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on women journalists in Europe.\\
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In 1996/97 she was press spokeswoman for the Ministry for Women, Youth and Housing in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. \\
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She started her academic career in 1998 as a research assistant at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig. In 2005, with a scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), she habilitated at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Dortmund. She held guest professorships for media and communication at the University of Vienna (2004), University of Siegen (2005) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (2006/07). In 2008, she became a full-time professor at the University of Siegen. \\
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She has been a Professor of Journalism Studies at the FU Berlin since 2009. From 2009 to 2014, she served as Director of the International College of Journalism there. In 2009, she took over the scientific management of the Central Institution for the Promotion of Women's and Gender Studies and from 2014 to 2019 she was spokesperson for the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies. She is a member of the Academic Senate in Berlin and serves as a mentor for young scholars at the Heinrich Böll Foundation as well as the Hans Böckler Foundation. She is PI and board member in the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies where she leads research projects on the role of affect and emotions in contemporary media societies.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit mlunenborg}][{ALLOW upload mlunenborg}][{ALLOW comment All}]