University Professors
- Heike Drotbohm (Chair of Anthropology "African Diaspora and Transnationalism")
- Franziska Fay (Junior Professorship of Anthropology with a Focus on Political Anthropology)
- Matthias Krings (Chair of Anthropology and African Popular Culture)
- Carola Lentz (Senior Research Professorship of Anthropology)
- Nico Nassenstein (Chair of African Languages and Linguistics)
- Markus Verne (Chair of Anthropology with a Focus on Aesthetics)
Honorary Professors and Adjunct Professors
Emeriti and Retired Professors
- Thomas Bierschenk
- Paul Drechsel
- Gerhard Grohs †
- Raimund Kastenholz
- Ernst Wilhelm Müller †
- Ivo Strecker