Holtz-Bacha, Christina (1953—)

Christina Holtz-Bacha holds the chair for communication research at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. Her academic career started with the study of communication, political science, and sociology at the universities of Münster and Bonn. In Münster she obtained her PhD in 1978. From 1979 until 1981 she worked as a press manager for the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach. Between 1981 and 1991, Holtz-Bacha worked as an assistant professor in communication at the University of Munich. She received her postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in 1989 and held her first professorship from 1991 at the University of Bochum. She continued to the University of Mainz in 1995, and in 2004 she took up the post at the university of Erlangen-Nürnberg, succeeding Winfried Schulz.

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