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
AfroGastro
Nachtlinguistik
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)
Veterans, Masculinity, and Land Expropriation in Contemporary...
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
Gender inequality in West Cameroon
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
The Decoration Program of the Temple of Kom Ombo
Coffins as Communicative Media for Religious Visual Strategies
Emotions in Ancient Egypt. Concepts – Standards – Functions
Socio-Economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris
Dynamics in Middle Kingdom Economy
Moulding Love: Female Egyptianising Terracotta Figurines
Transformations of Dahshur’s cultural landscape
