dr. F. (Frank) Harbers

Working experience:

2025-now Associate Professor (UHD2) at Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Groningen

2023-2024 Program coordinator a.i. of the BA Media Studies

2019-2024 Assistant Professor (UD1) at Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Groningen

2018-now Program coordinator of the BA Media Studies

2016-2018 Postdoc (0,5 fte) in VIDI project 'Entrepreneurship at Work: Analysing Practice, Labour, and Creativity in Journalism'

2016 (July-December) Researcher-in-Residence at the Royal Library in The Hague

2014-2019 Assistant Professor (UD2) at Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Groningen

2013-2014 Researcher with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen 

2012-2014 Teacher at Journalism MA and Minor Program at the University of Groningen

2008-2014 Phd candidate  in the project "Reporting at the boundaries of the public sphere" with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (Thesis defended on 30 October 2014)

2007-2008 Teacher in Dutch literature at the International School Groningen (part of Maartenscollege, part of Carmel College)

2006-2007 Teaching assistent Dutch linguistic competency at the Freie Universität Berlin

Education:

2006-2007 Wintersemester at Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin)

2005-2008 University of Groningen, researchmaster Literary and Cultural Studies. Thesis: The Construction of a national identity in the work of E. J. Potgieter, N. Beets en I. Da Costa

2002-2005 Univeristy of Groningen, bachelor Dutch Language and Literature (specialisation Contemporary Literature). Bachelorthesis: Tonnus Oosterhoff, a postmodern poet?

Extracurricular activities:

2023-now Member of the Young Academy Groningen

2021-now Member of the editorial board of Journalism History

2021-now Member of the Faculty Council for the personel faction (faction chair since september 2023)

2017-2020 Member of Young ARts Network (YARN) (Board member since September 2018)

2013-2025 Editor of  Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis  [Dutch Journal for Media History]