Department of Anthropology and African Studies
Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies 07 · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · Forum 6 · 55099 Mainz · Tel: +49-6131-3922798 · Fax: +49-6131-392373 · Head of Department: Thomas Bierschenk · Secretary: Rita Bauer · +49-6131-3922798 · rbauer@uni-mainz.de

The National University of Rwanda in Butare and the University of Mainz have cooperated closely since 1982. The Department of Anthropology and African Studies has a close cooperation with the Department of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences. Since 1984 we have been collaborating with the Department of Sociology and Social Administration and the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Addis Abeba. In 1994 Ivo Strecker was appointed to oversee the establishment of the South Omo Research Centre in Southern Ethiopia.The department also works in conjunction with the Institut Nationale des Sciences Humaines (INSH), Université N'Djamena (Tschad) in carrying out research on the northern Nilo-Saharan languages as well as linguistic research in general. We also maintain close contacts with anthropologists and sociologists at the Université Nationale de Bénin (UNB) in Cotonou (Benin), with whom researchers from our own department are collaborating on a number of research projects. Many of these joint research projects also involve students from Benin.

In 1999 the Department of Anthropology and African Studies and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Port Elizabeth (UPE), South Africa entered into a cooperative agreement that facilitates the exchange of students and staff as well as the planning and execution of joint research projects.

Erasmus:

Our department also participates in the European exchange program ERASMUS and has established bilateral agreements with 19 universities throughout Europe. For the academic year 2008/2009 the department maintains bilateral agreements for student exchanges with the following universities:

African Studies

• Universität Leiden
• SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London
• Universität Neapel
• Universität Wien

Anthropology

• Åarhus Universitet
• Université de Provence,Aix-en-Provence (Aix-Marseille)
• Université Libre de Bruxelles
• University of Kent at Canterbury
• Universidad de Granada
• Universiteit Leiden
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Université Catholique de Louvain
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales EHESS, Paris
• Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
• Université Paris - Nanterre (Paris X)
• Roskilde Universitetscenter
• Università degli Studi die Siena
• Universitet Uppsala
• Universität Zürich

ERASMUS students who plan to study African Studies or Anthropology at the University of Mainz on the basis of our ERASMUS partnerships, will find more information here: http://www.uni-mainz.de/eng/10965.php.