Hauke Dorsch
Scientific Director of the AMA.
Thematic focus:
African Diaspora, African Pop Music, World Music, Ethnology of Performance, Multilocal Research, Cultural Studies, (Post-)Colonialism.
Regional focus:
Western and Southern Africa, Cuba, USA, Germany, Great Britain
Michael Restorff
Library Officer of the AMA. He studied Philosophy, Religious Studies and Ethnology. He is responsible for title registration in HeBIS. Email
Barbara Wenger
Librarian of the AMA; studies in African Studies, Oriental Studies, Archaeology, Indo-Germanic Studies.
Focus: Cultural contacts.
Responsible for cataloging. Email
Clémentine Nkongolo
Project: Digitisation, transcription and translation of the texts of the collection of Congolese singles.
Asya Weißgerber
Student assistant at the AMA. Graduate student in the Master's programme "Ethnology of the Global" (JGU).
Moritz Zielinski
Student assistant at the AMA. Graduate student in the Master's programme "Ethnology of the Global" (JGU).
Sophie Breßler
Intern at the AMA. Undergraduate student Ethnology and Musicology (JGU).