Previous & Current Research Projects
Previous and current projects and achievements
- Maria Sybilla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)
- Graduiertenkolleg 2571 “Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- SFB 948 “Helden – Heroisierungen – Heroismen”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- SFB 1015 “Muße”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste: Reciprocal, Interdisciplinary, and Transparent: Provenance Research from the Perspective of Restitution in the Colonial Context
- Forschungskolleg “Neues Reisen – Neue Medien”, funded by VolkswagenStiftung
- Conference „Rethinking Europe from the Caribbean: Entanglements and Legacies“ 2018, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Conference “De-Linking: Critical Thought and Radical Politics” 2019, funded by Volkswagen Foundation
- ERC Grant “The Global Qur’an”
- BMBF Network Project „Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict“
- Graduiertenkolleg 1956 “Kulturtransfer und ‚kulturelle Identität‘ – Deutsch-russische Kontakte im europäischen Kontext”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Emmy Noether Research Group “Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Research project “West African English on the Move: New Forms of English as a Lingua Franca in Germany”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Research project “Marketization of sand in Cambodia: global networks, conflicts and materialities”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Research project “Rusyn as a minority language across state borders: quantitative perspectives”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Research project “Promises of Democratic Connection. The Politics of Transregional Energy Infrastructure Expansion”, funded by Thyssen Foundation
- Research project “Displacement in Africa”, funded by German Foundation for Peace Research
- Forschungsstelle “Frieden und Versöhnung (in Burundi und im Afrika der Großen Seen)”, funded by Stiftung Entwicklungs-Zusammenarbeit Baden-Württemberg and Erzbischof-Hermann-Stiftung
- Research Project “Emergent Remembering II. Saying the Unsayable” 2023-2026, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)