Current projects at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies financed through external funding
African Languages and Linguistics
- Afrikaner*innen im Rhein-Main-Gebiet: Ein afrikalinguistisches Forschungsprojekt zu sprachlicher Integration
Project coordination: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein (JGU/Mainz) und Prof. Dr. Axel Fleisch (GU/Frankfurt); Project members: Dr. Sabine Littig (JGU/Mainz), Dr. Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (GU/Frankfurt), Funded by: RMU-Initiativfonds Forschung (2019 - 2021).
Anthropology
- The Management of Loss: Politics of Life and Death in Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Project member: Theresa Mentrup. Funded by: DFG (duration: 2022 - 2025).
- Subproject A01: Melanin Matters: Skin tone politics in Nigeria and beyond Sonderforschungsbereich 1482 "Humandifferenzierung", JGU Mainz. Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings, Project members: Marion Grimberg, M.A. und Christopher Hohl, M.A.. Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021 - 2025).
- Subproject B04: Providers and recipients of help. Human categorization between solidarity and differentiation in Portugal and Brazil
Sonderforschungsbereich 1482 "Humandifferenzierung", JGU Mainz. Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Mitarbeiterinnen: Elena Hernández and Elena Reichl. Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021 - 2025).
- Migration and Im/Mobility in the Global South during a Global Pandemic (DFG network)
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm and Prof. Dr. Antje Missbach (Universität Bielefeld). Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021 - 2024).
- CEDITRAA - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia
RMU-Projekt, Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings, PIs: J.-P. Dr. Nico Nassenstein a. Prof. Dr. Ute Röschenthaler, Project coordination: Artemis Saleh und Tom Simmert, assoziiert: Dr. Hauke Dorsch. Funded by: BMBF (duration: 2021 - 2024).
- Religious diversity and tradition in Burkina Faso: historical and contemporary challenges (DivTradBF)
Project manager: Katrin Langewiesche and Alice Degorce. Funded by: DFG and ANR (duration: 2021 - 2024).
- Kinoerzählen in Ostafrika. Eine intermediale Praxis an der Schnittstelle von Film und mündlicher Erzählkunst, Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings with Dr. Claudia Böhme, Project member: Dr. Solomon Waliaula. Funded by: Thyssen-Stiftung (duration: 2021 – 2023).
- Police-translations – multilingualism and the everyday production of cultural difference
Project coordination: Dr. Jan Beek, Project members: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk, Dr. Annalena Kolloch, Prof. Dr. Bernd Meyer; Marcel Müller and Theresa Radermacher (associated PhD students). Funded by: DFG (duration: 2019 - 2022).
- Early-career funding in German African academic co-operation: an overview
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Carola Lentz, Project member: Andrea Noll. Funded by BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) (duration: 2019 - 2021).
- African trajectories across Central America: displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Project members: Yaatsil Guevara González,
Elena Reichl, Pablo M. Delgado Faust. Funded by the DFG (duration 2018-2022).
- Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Appropriation, and Dissemination
Project coordination: Dr. Christoph Günther; Project members: Yorck Beese, Alexandra Dick, Robert Dörre, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Dr. Simone Pfeifer, Mirko Scherf, Dr. Bernd Zywietz. Funded by: BMBF (duration 2017 - 2022).
- Poesie als ästhetische Praxis. Form, Erfahrung und lebensweltlicher Bezug sprachästhetischer Artikulation in Madagaskar und Tansania
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Markus Verne; Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke, Bayreuth. Project members: Maike Meurer; Nikitta Adjirakor. Funded by the DFG (duration 2016 - 2022).