Dr. Özlem Savaş

By appointment! Registration at savas@europa-uni.de

• Migration research with a focus on cultural production and everyday life
• Media studies, digital culture and digital humanities
• Affects, emotional practices and collective feelings
• Material culture and visual culture
• Ethnographic and convivial research methods

To the list of publications

Academic activities

Since 01/2022
Postdoctoral research associate, Chair of Comparative Culture and Social Anthropology

04/2021 – 12/2021
Postdoctoral research associate, Bard College Berlin

10/2018 – 04/2021
Postdoctoral research associate, Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin

12/2017 – 09/2018
Postdoctoral research fellow, ZeM – Brandenburg Center for Media Studies, Potsdam

04/2017 – 11/2017
Postdoctoral research associate, Zukunftskolleg & Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz

10/2008 – 10/2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Design, Bilkent University, Ankara

Academic career

10/2008 Dr. Phil., Cultural Studies and Material Culture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Dissertation: “Taste Diaspora: The Aesthetic and Material Practice of Belonging”

06/2002 Master of Science (MSc), Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

06/1999 Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara