PhD Students

    • Bruchhäuser, Katja: Kleidung als Ausdruck von Kommunikation im Grasland von Kamerun (Betreuerin: Röschenthaler)
    • Enow Abru, Silvia: The influence of fashion industry on African hairstyles (Supervisor: Röschenthaler)
    • Fricke, Christine: Politische Kultur in Gabun (Supervisor: Bierschenk)
    • Fuhrmann, Larissa Diana: The Art of Appropriating Violent Images: Artistic Practices and the Contestation of the Islamic State (Supervisor: Krings)
    • Gabriel, Marie-Christin: Performing sameness, performing differences: the inner contouring of the nation in national-day celebrations in Burkina Faso (in the project "Performing the nation and subnational differences in African national days") (Supervisor: Lentz)
    • Geschke, Janis: On the permeability and cementation of national borders in German deportation bureaucracies (Supervisor: Drotbohm)
    • Marion Grimberg, Light(er) skin: The meaning of light skin and skin lightening in Nigeria and beyond (Supervisor: Krings)
    • Hohl, Christopher: The Other White Body in Past and Present: Shifting Representations of Albinism, 1520–2020 (im Projekt "Un/doing Albinism: Recodings of a bodily difference through historically shifting frames") (Supervisor Krings)
    • Jákli, Daniel: The Sound of Freedom: Nature and Politics in the USA (Supervisor: Verne)
    • Knipping, Jan: Eine diskurslinguistische Untersuchung von Hospitality und Hostility am Beispiel der westnilotischen Sprachen Acholi und Adhola (Supervisor: Nassenstein)
    • Loureiro-Galmbacher, Fabienne: Construction Grammar and Language Contact – An Approach to Angolan Portuguese (Co-Supervisor: Nassenstein).
    • Mentrup, Theresa: Quem cuida? Transfer and Implementation of State Care in the Aftermath of the "Brumadinho Dam Disaster" (Minas Gerais / Brazil) (Supervisor: Drotbohm)
    • Meurer, Maike: Dichtkunst in Madgaskar. Zur Bedeutung sprachästhetischer Praxis im Kontext sozio-politischer Umbrüche (Supervisor: Verne)
    • Molter, Celine: Religious Entrepreneurship in Theme Parks and Passion Plays (Supervisor: Bierschenk)
    • Müller, Marcel: Polizei in Hessen: Eine Autoethnographie (im Projekt ‚Polizei-Translationen‘) (Supervisor: Bierschenk)
    • Neubauer, Inès: Economic groups and boundaries. Formen der Kooperation informeller Scrap Dealer Agbobloshies (Ghana) (Supervisor: Röschenthaler)
    • Pater, Birthe: Cultural Heritage for Development (Supervisor: Röschenthaler)
    • Radermacher, Theresa: The lived asylum process in a reception centre for asylum seekers in Germany. Interactions between the actors involved (in the project "Polizei-Translationen") (Supervisor: Drotbohm)
    • Reiffen, Franziska: South-south migration and processes of dis-(em)placement in Argentina (Supervisor: Drotbohm)
    • Simbikangwa, ModesteDeutsch und Kinyarwanda- ein typologischer Vergleich auf phonologischer, morphologischer und syntaktischer Ebene (Co-Supervisor: Nassenstein).
    • Simmert, Tom: Afrobeats – celebrity, entrepreneurship and pop music in Nigeria (Supervisor: Krings)
    • Thomas, Silja: Frauenheiraten in Afrika in historischer Perspektive (Supervisor: Lentz)
    • Vigeland, Friederike: Issues in Longuda (Adamawa, Nigeria) grammar (working titel) (Supervisor: Kastenholz)
    • Wockelmann, Deborah: Sociolinguistics of Migration: Creative Language Practices in Kinyarwanda. (Supervisor: Nassenstein)
    • Wolter, NeleConstructing Livelihoods: Making a Living Among Older Cameroonians during the Anglophone Crisis (Supervisor: Drotbohm)