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)