Bio

Kevin Smets is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and a member of CEMESO (Culture, Emancipation, Media & Society). He was trained as a cultural historian (in Brussels, Prague and Leuven) and obtained a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture (Antwerp, 2013). He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (2013-2017) and has been a visiting scholar at different universities in Turkey, Germany and the UK. He is the vice-chair of the European Communication Research & Education Association's Diaspora, Migration & the Media section, and was selected in 2017 as a member of the Young Academy of Flanders (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts).

Current courses at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (in Dutch or English)

Visual Culture

Film Studies

Media and Diversity

Media, Culture and Globalization Theories

Research topics

Media, migration and diversity

Turkey, Middle East and media

Visual culture, film studies

Cultural studies