Elena Kaliberda

Biography

Dr. Elena Kaliberda is an instructor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton 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 Carleton University (2015). In 2024, she earned a PhD in Communication at Carleton University. Her dissertation research focuses on community radio, forced migration, and the public sphere in Germany.

She is currently teaching a first-year course in Digital Skills for Media Studies, a fourth-year course in Media Fandom, and third- and fourth-year special topic courses in Community Radio/Community Radio in a Global Context at Carleton University, Canada. Elena has been involved in the Canadian community media sector with Ottawa Woman publishing and CHIN (CJLL) broadcasting since 2012.

In the past, she taught courses “Journalism in Practice”, “Public Relations in Economics and Crisis Communications” 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’s and Master’s students: Public Relations. Introductory course, issued in three editions of 2002, 2004, and 2012; Public Relations in the area of Economics, issued in two editions of 2008 and 2012. She worked for the Russian heritage daily newspaper Izvestia in early 1990s and its weekly supplement Soyuz-Life, also for the news desk at radio 101.