Elisabeth Klaus

Elisabeth Klaus is professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Salzburg; she studied mathematics and social sciences at the University of Münster and holds a PhD in sociology in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame/ USA. In 1996 she finished her “Habilitation” at the University of Dortmund. She was a visiting professor at the Universities of Hamburg, Vienna and Klagenfurt and a research fellow at the Department of Communication of Dublin City University. From 1996-2003 she was professor for Empirical Communication Research at the University of Göttingen. Her focus in research and teachings are . Her most recent book publication is Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung. Zur Bedeutung der Frauen in den Massenmedien und im Journalismus (2005).