CMDS Welcomes Victor Khroul as Non-resident Fellow

We are happy to announce that Victor Khroul, a professor from the Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics has joined CMDS as a non-resident fellow.

Victor Khroul has been a full professor at the Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Journalism Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he was also chair of Sociology of Mass Communication. The CMDS fellowship is not his first connection to CEU: in 2011 he was a Visiting Professor at our university.

During his academic career, he has been the principal investigator of 11 local and international research projects in the field of religion and media. He is also the author of 15 books.

At CMDS, Victor Khroul will continue pursuing his ongoing research. His current research project focuses on humor as a factor of conflict in media discourse on religion. Studying humor-related conflict such as the Danish cartoon scandal or a recent Belorussian cartoon mocking Catholics, he aims to map the limitations of humor for different religions.