Prof. Dr. Christine Horz-Ishak

Dr. phil.
Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

Prof. Dr. Christine Horz-Ishak

Campus Südstadt
Ubierring 48
50678 Köln
Room 450 Mailing address


  • Phone: +49 221-8275-5263

Office hours

during summer term 2026
Wednesday, Friday, 12:30 to 13:30 , Room online (Zoom)
Individual consultation appointments can be booked in the ILU calendar. (Fridays between 12:30 and 13:30 h). https://ilu.th-koeln.de/goto.php/grp/95127/rcoderZpKUewuhe Consultation appointments in my capacity as programme director of the BA Mulitlingual Communication can also be booked via the ILU calendar under the entry "Studiengangsleitung" (programme director). (Wednesdays between 12:30 and 13:30 h). Consultation hours usually take place via Zoom, but in justified exceptions they can be held in person. An Zoom-Meeting teilnehmen https://th-koeln.zoom-x.de/j/81043437867 Meeting-ID: 810 4343 7867 Kenncode: 887559

Positions

  • member of the faculty council
  • liaison for the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation
  • Programme Director BA Multilingual Communication

Responsibilities

  • Programme Director BA Multilingual Communication

Teaching disciplines

  • Transcultural media communication

Research fields

  • Media and Diversity, transcultural communication, racism and media, transformation and future of public service media
  • Publisher of Global Media Journals - DE, (with Prof. Dr. Carola Richter, FU Berlin). Since 2011
    DFG-funded academic journal for international and transcultural media communication (bilingual, open access, gold standard)
  • Founding Member of the DFG Network Cosmopolitan Communication Studies (KosmoKW)
    The research network is committed to a "deep" internationalization of German communication studies.
    Introduction and position paper
  • Diversity in Journalism
    Cooperative project with the Neue Deutsche Medienmacher 2020
    Neue Deutsche Medienmacher
  • Media for Democracy Monitor 2021
    International comparative research project by the Euromedia Research Group.
    Euromedia Research Group
  • mediendiversityhub
    Teaching and research project: online-information collection on the research topic of diversity and media
    mediendiversityhub
  • Teaching and Research cooperation with the public service braodcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), since 2022
    Research and teaching cooperation since 2022
    WDR diversity unit
  • Diversity Guide
    Cooperative project on diverse reporting in journalism (2021).
    Neue Deutsche Medienmacher
  • Founding member of the DFG-Network Cosmopolitan Communication Studies
    Cosmopolitan Communication Studies
  • DGPuK member and division chair of International and Intercultural Communication (2018-2022)
    Section within the largest communication association in the germanspeaking world German Communication Association (DGPuK)
    International and Intercultural Communication
  • Member of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
    ECREA
  • Rat für Migration
    Interdisciplinary expert and advisory council on migration in Germany
    Rat fuer Migration

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