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
- 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).
- 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).
- African trajectories across Central America: displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Project member: Elena Reichl. Funded by the DFG (duration 2018-2021)
- 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. Projektfinanzierung: 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)
- Politics and practices of eligibility in Brazilian humanitarian bureaucracies
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm. Funded by Heisenberg-Programme DFG (duration 2015 - 2019)