Since 2024, Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens has been a research associate at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, working on the DFG-funded project “From Dallas to Berlin on Demand: The Transnationalization of Meaning? A Multilevel Replication Study in Israel and Germany.”
She has also taught at Philipps University Marburg.
After studying history, film, and media studies in Berlin and Potsdam, Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens worked as a research assistant at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam in the media studies program, focusing on both research and teaching. As a research officer in the field of research and innovation, she coordinated the Graduate Academy at the Film University from 2022 to 2023.
From 2023 to 2024, Yulia was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in the third-party funded project “For Real? Virtual Encounters with Holocaust Survivors” at the Film University. She now supports the project as an associate researcher
Dr. Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens received her PhD at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf on transnational television programme exchanges in Eastern Europe during the Cold War in the period of 1960-1993.
Her research interests include European television and media history, particularly the history of media organizations and events from a transnational perspective, research on women in media history and popular television entertainment.
She is a member of the following networks:
- GfM (The German Society for Media Studies)
- DGPuK (The German Communication Association)
- ZeM (The Brandenburg Center for Media Studies)
- RuG (The German Broadcasting History Society)
- NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies)
- CTMR (The Centre for Transnational Media Research, Denmark)
- IAMHIST (The International Association for Media and History)
- EMHIS (Entangled Media Histories)
- WFTHN (Women’s Film and Television History Network)
Publication list of Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens
