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).
- Adamawa Languages Project:
Describing Adamawa group languages / Grundlagenforschung in den Adamawasprachen
Grundlagenforschung in den Adamawa-Sprachen Nordost Nigerias
Project coordination: Dr. Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, Funded by the DFG (duration 2016 - 2019)
Anthropology
- Police-translations – multilingualism and the everyday production of cultural difference
Project coordination: Dr. Jan Beek, Project members: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk, Prof. Dr. Bernd Meyer und Theresa Radermacher (associated PhD student). Funded by: DFG (Duration: 2019 - 2021).
- Brokers under scrutiny: investigating practices of intermediation in a globalising world
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Ute Röschenthaler, Project members: Dr. des. Kathrin Knodel (GU Frankfurt), Ricardo Marquez, Project partner: PD Dr. Birgit Bräuchler (Monash University Melbourne, Faculty of Arts). Funded by the DAAD provided by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), (duration 2019 - 2020)
- Liturgical music as a place of emancipation for African nuns? Kora and emancipation in secular and liturgical music
Project coordination: Dr. Katrin Langewiesche, Project members: Dr. Hauke Dorsch, Dr. Isabelle Jonveaux. Funded by Mariann Steegmann Foundation (duration 2018 - 2019)
- African trajectories across Central America: Dynamics of displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Project member: Dr. Nanneke Winters. 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, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, 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 - 2019)
- Contemplation and Social Commitment: West African Monasteries, Transnational Networks and Alternative Economies
Project coordination: Dr. Katrin Langewiesche. Funded by the DFG (duration 2016 - 2019)
- Politics and practices of eligibility in Brazilian humanitarian bureaucracies
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm. Funded by Heisenberg-Programme DFG (duration 2015 - 2019)
- Un/doing Albinism: Recodings of a bodily difference through historically shifting frames
Subproject of the research group 1939 “Un/doing Differences. Practices of human differentiation” at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings. Project members: Susanne Kathrin Denny (nee Hoff); Christopher Hohl. Funded by the DFG (duration 2013 - 2019)