RESEARCH FELLOWS
Research Fellows
We believe every undergraduate at the University of Florida should and can become a practicing researcher. Curious to learn, ready to apply, and prepared to lead. With curiosity, real drive, and the right mentorship, that transformation can begin today. That is why the Center for European Studies created the CES Research Fellows program: to bring undergraduate students into our research community and pair them with faculty working on projects across the social sciences and humanities.
As a CES Research Fellow, you will learn research the way researchers actually learn it. Hands-on, inside a live project, alongside a faculty mentor with deep expertise in the field. Depending on the project, you may identify and evaluate sources, conduct literature reviews, work with archival or digital materials, collect and analyze data, develop research questions, contribute to writing and presentations, or explore new methods and approaches. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, the program will give you an inside view of how ideas become research and how research produces knowledge.
And you do not do it alone. Fellows join a research cohort that exchanges ideas, share progress, work through challenges, and develop research and professional skills. The semester culminates in a Research Fellows Symposium, where Fellows present their work in a conference setting, engage with questions, and share their research with faculty, students, and the wider university community.
Consider yourself a natural fit if you are curious, motivated, dependable, and ready to learn.
Once admitted, you will enroll in EUS 4911 during the semester of your fellowship. The standard option is 3 credits with approximately 9 hours per week committed to the program, including research with your faculty mentor, cohort activities, and the symposium. A zero-credit option is available, in which case you will also have the same program expectations.
Put together, the experience can become a foundation for an honors thesis, University or CLAS Scholars opportunity, graduate study, future research, or a career beyond the university.
Your research journey with CES begins with an application.
Contact Research Fellows Coordinator Dr. Emrah Sahin at emrahsahin@ufl.edu.
For full program expectations, application details, and additional information, see the CES Research Fellows Program Guide.
STUDENT APPLICATION INFORMATION:
Priority Deadline: Monday, November 30th, 2026 11:59 pm`
Spring 2027 Research Opportunities
| Faculty Mentor | Research Focus | Skills Applied |
| Agata Kowalewska | Food, health, sustainability, EU agricultural policy, the European Green Deal | Literature review; data analysis; policy research; editing |
| Alexander Panayotov | International law, economic coercion, sanctions, trade and investment | Legal research; literature review; scholarly synthesis |
| Alin M. Ceobanu | Migration and Anti-immigrant Sentiment, Nationalism and Xenophobia, Civic and Ethnic Identities, Political Attitudes in Eastern and Western Europe | Quantitative Analysis; Multilevel Modeling; Literature Analysis, Cross-national Comparative Research |
| Asli Baysal | Democratic backsliding, EU funding, elections, political economy | Data collection and analysis; literature review; comparative research |
| Bogdan-Cristian Dumitru | Intellectual, religious, and social history of modern Central and Eastern Europe | Literature review, archival research, source analysis |
| Chrysostomos Kostopoulos | Ancient Greece, mathematics and political thought; Rebetika history | Historical research; literature review; data analysis; archival research |
| Edit Nagy | Youth organizations, socialism and everyday life in Central and Eastern Europe | Annotated bibliography; literature review; audiovisual analysis; source organization |
| Emrah Sahin | Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey, Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean | Historical research; source analysis; literature review; writing and editing |
| Esther Romeyn | Migration, memory, far-right politics, racism and European cultural studies | Discourse analysis; cultural analysis; literature review; web research |
| Guelden Olgun | Migration, diaspora, identity and contemporary German-speaking cultures | Cultural and media analysis; bibliography; close reading; digital research |
| Hiromi Kaneda | Italian Studies; Gender & Masculinity; Film & Media; Migration, Identity & Second-Generation Studies | Film & visual analysis; literary & cultural analysis; interdisciplinary research; research & writing |
| Imani Mosley | TBD | TBD |
| Lenka Bustikova | Nationalism, populism, democratic backsliding and public opinion in Eastern Europe | Data collection and coding; literature review; comparative political analysis |
| Salah Algabli | Arabs in Europe, Diaspora and Transnational Identities, Migration and Integration, Artificial Intelligence and Humanities | Literature review; Qualitative and Quantitative Research; Data Collection and Analysis; Mixed-methods Research; Digital humanities and AI-assisted research |
| Seth Bernstein | Soviet policing and political violence through the KGB Lab | Archival research; transcription; structured data; computational history |
| Sharon D. Austin | African Americans in Europe, race, gender & comparative politics | Literature review; qualitative research; policy analysis; data collection |
| Zhaoxi Zhang | Human-centered urban design; digital technologies for community science; environmental risks and human health | Literature review; human subjects’research; case study research; data visualization |