Jeta Abazi Gashi
Award-winning journalist from Kosovo, Jeta Abazi Gashi has a background in three
disciplines: journalism, political science, and history. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of History, Art, and Area Studies at the University of Leipzig and has also held various visiting fellowships at the University of Vienna, University of Trento, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Prior to her academic career, she worked as an investigative journalist and for various international organizations in Kosovo.
She joins IPDGC as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Kosovo. She will explore questions
related to discourse, identity, and political communication between Kosovo and the United
States. Her Ph.D. focused on religion and secularity in Albania and Kosovo. Her other works
focused on national identity, democratization and media framing of terrorism.