Mandy Tröger studied North American and Middle Eastern history, and sociology at the University of Erfurt for her Bachelors, and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam for her Masters. In 2018, she received her Doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research (ICR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and, later, won the Dissertation Prize for Young Researchers by the Communication History Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK).
Since returning to Germany, Mandy Tröger has worked at the Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University in Munich, and at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research (IJK) at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. From 2023 to 2025, she held a Walter Benjamin fellowship at the University of Tübingen, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In January 2026, she defended her second qualifying book on “Critical Theories for Analyzing the Transformation of Media and Communication.” In July 2026, Mandy Tröger will take up the position of associate professor at Södertörn University in Stockholm, funded by the Wallenberg Foundation.
Since 2017, Mandy Tröger has been a member of the steering committee of the German Network for Critical Communications Research (KriKoWi), and Vice Chair of the Political Economy Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) since 2022. Since 2024, she has also been co-editor of Journalism Research, a journal dedicated to journalism studies.
