Erkan Yüksel graduated from the Faculty of Communication at Anadolu University in 1994.
For his Master's degree, awarded in
1996, he conducted research on the development of the Turkish economic
press.
His PhD research tested the
agenda-setting hypothesis in the context of the relationship between the
privatization policy of the Turkish Great National Assembly and the coverage of
the topic in the economic press.
His first teaching position was at Selcuk University from 1995 until 1998 in which
year he moved to Anadolu University, and in 2000 he took up the post of
assistant professor in the Faculty of Communications.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the
University of Texas at Austin in 2002 and worked with Maxwell McCombs, the
founding father of the agenda-setting approach. Together with McCombs and Serra
Görpe, he is the co-founding father of the Annual International Symposium Communication
in the Millennium.
He was Head of the Department of
Journalism at Cyprus
International University while
on sabbatical from Anadolu University during the academic year of 2003-2004.
He got associated professor degree on
2004 and he was vice dean at Anadolu University Faculty of Communication
Sciences between the years 2005-2008.
He appointed as full professor at
Anadolu University on 2010.
Yuksel was editor in cheef of Anadolu
Haber, weekly campus newspaper of Anadolu University, between the years 2006-2014.
Currently he is the chair of the Department of Journalism at Faculty of Communication Sciences, since 2011. And he is the editor in cheef of Genç Anadolu newspaper and Genç Haber journal of the department. He teaches Research Methods, Content Analysis, Communication Theories, Agenda-Setting Studies, and News Writing.