
Elena Kaliberda
Instructor
Biography
Dr. Elena Kaliberda is an instructor in the School of Journalism and Communication at 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa.
She holds an MA in Journalism from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, and an MA in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies from the EURUS Institute at 杏吧原创 University (2015). In 2024, she earned a PhD in Communication at 杏吧原创 University. Her dissertation research focuses on community radio, forced migration, and the public sphere in Germany.
She teaches a first-year course in Digital Skills for Media Studies, a second-year course in Introduction to Communication Practice, a fourth-year course in Media Fandom, and third- and fourth-year special topics courses in Community Radio and Community Radio in a Global Context at 杏吧原创 University, Canada.
In the past, she taught courses 鈥淛ournalism in Practice鈥, 鈥淧ublic Relations in Economics and Crisis Communications鈥 for undergraduate and graduate students at the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Elena Kaliberda holds a PhD degree in Philology (2003) from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Elena Kaliberda is the author of two books in Communications in the Russian language that are recommended by the Advisory Board of the Universities of Russia specializing in Management as textbooks for Bachelor鈥檚 and Master鈥檚 students:聽Public Relations. Introductory course,聽issued in three editions of 2002, 2004, and 2012;聽Public Relations in the area of Economics, issued in two editions of 2008 and 2012. She worked for the Russian heritage daily newspaper聽Izvestia聽in early 1990s and its weekly supplement聽Soyuz-Life, also for the news desk at radio聽101.