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.”
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.
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.
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)
Publications list of Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens
