Elie Friedman
Lecturer, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Dr. Elie Friedman is a visiting lecturer of Israel Studies at the University of Maryland for Fall semester, 2025. He serves as Senior Lecturer and Head of the Communications Division within the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at Ashkelon Academic College, as well as teaching fellow at the School of Communication (international program), Bar-Ilan University. He received his PhD at the Department of Journalism and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2016) and subsequently served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University.
His research interests include political and media discourse in national and international contexts with an emphasis on changing technologies, polarization, and peace and conflict studies. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach, which combines discourse pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, journalism studies, public diplomacy, and deliberative democracy, his research examines how various discursive strategies contribute to self-other relations in conflictual situations within Israel and between Israel and its neighbors. He is widely published in leading communication and discourse journals, including the Communication Review (2025), Journal of Communication (2024), and Language & Communication (2023), and has published two books (one a monograph and one edited volume), both published at Routledge Academic Press.