Research African Studies
Interdisciplinary Research
Beyond split case marking: Participant coding strategies in East African languages
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
Kritische Afrikanistik
Deep Meta
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
Heritage – for Whom and Why? Global, National and Local Processes in...
PhD Projects
Linguistic landscape in a Bilingual Cameroon
The material culture of Senegalese migration and European tourism
Case marking and constituent order variation in Nilo-Saharan: Insights from a typological survey and a case study of Datooga (Nilotic)
On language, ritualisation and gender
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
Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and heritage in Middle Egypt
Cologne Aswan Summer School in Heritage Studies
Epigraphic works in the temple of Kom Ombo
Digital database of the early inscriptions of Egypt
Preserving the Book of the Dead of Iahtesnakht
History of ancient Egyptian lexicography
Society and culture in the Old and Middle Kingdom
PhD Projects
Current PhD Projects
Coffins as Communicative Media for Religious Visual Strategies
Emotions in Ancient Egypt. Concepts – Standards – Functions
Moulding Love: Female Egyptianising Terracotta Figurines
Multimodal communication in Middle Kingdom texts
Social networks in the Middle Kingdom
Social protocol in ancient Egypt
