Featured Fellows

Meet some BUA Fellows Club members and discover more about their research interests, experience to date, as well as what they actually think about the Berlin research scene.

Alexandra Zysset, FU Berlin

Exploring the role objects play in francophone/germanophone literature and how shifts of value are narrated

Dan Slater, FU Berlin

Authoritarianism, democratization, state-building, nationalism, violence, comparative-historical analysis, Southeast Asia

Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier, HU Berlin

Investigating how visual info, eye movements, goals (e.g., motivation), and features like color guide perception

Julianne Chua, HU Berlin

Researching Afro-Asian diasporas’ affinities, glitches, kinships in art, poetry, music videos, and makeshift forms

Zefitret Abera Molla, FU Berlin

Examining Afro-Mexican demands after 2019 ethnic recognition in Mexico’s Constitution and 2020 Census

Laura Diaz, Charité

Studying the gut-brain-microbiome axis and diet's role in neurological conditions like epilepsy, sclerosis

Pit Heinrich, FU Berlin

Examining texts' human-object relationships and their narratives, linking materialist theory to literature

Tamal Roy, HU Berlin

Studying fishing-induced selection's effects on fish brain, behavior, cognition, and survival