Research African Studies
Interdisciplinary Research
Split case marking and constituent order variation in East Africa
Anthropological Models for a Reconstruction of the First African Frontier
Global South Studies Center
CA IV - Cultures and Societies in Transition
Key Profile Area "Skills und Structures in Language and Cognition"
Independent Projects
Grammar of a Space
Bitter Legacy · Archaeology in São Tomé
AfroGastro
Kritische Afrikanistik
Deep Meta
Bad language: noises, silences, ruptures
Language and Tourism
Saints and Sinners: Voices of Kenyan women...
Women in African Linguistics
A Grammar of Lingala
A Grammatical Description of Zande
Einsatz der Force Publique außerhalb von DR Kongo
“Terra de Heróis:” a landscape biography of Mandlakaze (Mozambique)
Heritage – for Whom and Why? Global, National and Local Processes in...
PhD Projects
Word order variation in Datooga (working title)
Wise Sayings and Proverbs among Andaandi- and Mattokki-speaking Nubians
Performativität in der interkulturellen Kunst- und Kulturvermittlung
The material culture of Senegalese migration and European tourism
Linguistic landscape in a Bilingual Cameroon
Politeness in Swahili 2.0: New ways of indirect communication
On language, ritualisation and gender
Hakuna Matata and Adventure Africa Safari: The T-shirt as/in semiotic landscape(s)
Every knot says a lot - Penelope’s Odyssey in the Eastern Cape
Cultural memory, cultural practices and ethnic identity at Lake Abbaya
The spirit possession of Zar, slave trade, and slavery in the Iranian littoral of the Western Indian Ocean
Research projects
The research projects of the department cover a wide range of topics, from the archaeology, language and society of ancient Egypt to Egyptian religion, cultural interaction of Egypt with her neighbours and Heritage Studies.
![The cemetery of the early Old Kingdom at Zawyet Sultan](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_zs2019_144c1c5531_3063d8d2f2999f578d5818c5b00f9a63.jpg)
The cemetery of the early Old Kingdom at Zawyet Sultan
![Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and heritage in Middle Egypt](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_pyramide_c6624d3dc8_dc8ff08156c869d1e1116fc6c998cbc9.jpg)
Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and heritage in Middle Egypt
![Cologne Aswan Summer School in Heritage Studies](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_abu_simbel2_3b2f08515e_cb54e34a4c1187253caceb4445e1ad1b.jpg)
Cologne Aswan Summer School in Heritage Studies
![Epigraphic works in the temple of Kom Ombo](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_tempel_2f43270ecb_6da119024d7bc6bf63e73018c2649a2f.jpg)
Epigraphic works in the temple of Kom Ombo
![Digital database of the early inscriptions of Egypt](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_verwaltungspraxis_c9c068cbdf_05a985254f5db434b7d8973814f3f9c4.jpg)
Digital database of the early inscriptions of Egypt
![Preserving the Book of the Dead of Iahtesnakht](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_Iachtesnacht-a_bd5bf38687_644e29044bc170088de7aeaf55e1ee27.jpg)
Preserving the Book of the Dead of Iahtesnakht
![History of ancient Egyptian lexicography](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_Sperveslage_k_8781954313_cdc620122cbf5710b8ad610422245015.jpg)
History of ancient Egyptian lexicography
![Society and culture in the Old and Middle Kingdom](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_book_86cffe537d_2b035e6ec1dbd66335d98eb7fff75bc8.jpg)
Society and culture in the Old and Middle Kingdom
PhD projects
![The Decoration Program of the Temple of Kom Ombo](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_dekany_k_ce0c060068_b7187e6357357c974338721802ebc1ef.jpg)
The Decoration Program of the Temple of Kom Ombo
![Coffins as Communicative Media for Religious Visual Strategies](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_stoevesand_k_c763bae279_92573c075175159b0b9c2ed975193960.jpg)
Coffins as Communicative Media for Religious Visual Strategies
![Emotions in Ancient Egypt. Concepts – Standards – Functions](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_eicke_k_7a1ef43897_3f501ccae68c9e9e10f244d6b8d0b138.jpg)
Emotions in Ancient Egypt. Concepts – Standards – Functions
![Socio-Economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_tambs_k_6ab043c943_c9c9560487846e4fcd6146d95490bc22.jpg)
Socio-Economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris
![Dynamics in Middle Kingdom Economy](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_gutmann_k_71b64216f8_37eb4e2b246d6e60662f3bcba0b64efc.jpg)
Dynamics in Middle Kingdom Economy
![Moulding Love: Female Egyptianising Terracotta Figurines](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_everts_k_1cb6f808cf_2c2881871a0e72ea8eabcd8868708886.jpg)
Moulding Love: Female Egyptianising Terracotta Figurines
![Transformations of Dahshur’s cultural landscape](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_roefer_k_ef7e7cac79_01248ab7238ab460af47cc17dca9fb84.jpg)
Transformations of Dahshur’s cultural landscape
![Nubian Architecture: Historical anchors to a contested genealogy](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_ahmed_k_db92f28b78_39a6cd596bf1f473f8d945412434db54.jpg)