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Research grants and funded projects (selection; past five years)
| 2009 - 2012 | The poetics and politics of national commemoration in Africa |
| 2009 - 2011 | Policing in West Africa |
| 2005 - 2008 | various part projects (own research and supervised PhD projects) in the context of States at Work: Public Services and Civil Servants in West Africa: Education and Justice in Benin, Ghana, Mali and Niger ; coordinated by Thomas Bierschenk (Mainz) and Mahaman Tidjani Alou (Niamey), with the participation of eight senior and nine junior scholars; funded by VolkswagenStiftung |
| 2003 - 2006 | Die lokale Aneignung globaler Produkte: der Brühwürfel im Senegal (Local appropriation of global products: the bouillon cube in Senegal); researcher: Ruth Frackmann; funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. |
| 2003 - 2004 | Gemeinschaft im Exil. Eritreische Netzwerke in Deutschland (Community in exile: Eritrean networks in Germany); researcher: Nina von Nolting; funded by Centre for Intercultural Studies, University of Mainz. |
| 2000 - 2002 | Landnahme: Raumaneignung und lokale Identität im Süden Burkina Fasos (The appropriation of space and local identities in south-western Burkina Faso), project in the context of Special Research Project 268, ‘West African Savanna’, at the University of Frankfurt a. M; researchers: Carola Lentz, Richard Kuba, Michaela Oberhofer, Katja Werthmann, Andrea Wilhelmi; funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. |
| 1998 - 2001 | Zur politischen und ökonomischen Bedeutung kaufbarer Bünde im Cross River Gebiet (Kamerun/Nigeria) (The political and economic significance of alienable cult agencies in the Cross River Area (Cameroon/Nigeria); researcher: Ute Röschenthaler; funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. |
Scholarships
| 2008 - 2009 | Fulbright Scholarship; Fellow am Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA) |