Dr. Özlem Savaş earned a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She was an assistant professor at Bilkent University and held research fellowships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, The Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM), and the University of Konstanz. Currently, she works as a research fellow at Bard College Berlin. She has carried out ethnographic research projects that intersect migration studies, media studies, and cultural studies and has published on collective and political feelings of migration; affective digital media practices; diasporic aesthetics and material cultures; and visual culture in political Islam. Her current ethnographic research addresses contemporary exilic atmospheres in Berlin with a special focus on the affective culture of the recent migration from Turkey.