{"id":23767,"date":"2025-04-15T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=23767"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:43:43","slug":"fendt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/fendt\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile &#8211; Antonia Fendt"},"content":{"rendered":"<jgu-base-pageheader react-props=\"{\n    &quot;items&quot;: [\n        {\n            &quot;box&quot;: {\n                &quot;index&quot;: &quot;Institute&quot;,\n                &quot;title&quot;: &quot;The ifeas team&quot;,\n                &quot;link&quot;: {\n                    &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n                    &quot;title&quot;: &quot;learn more&quot;\n                }\n            },\n            &quot;color&quot;: &quot;default&quot;,\n            &quot;image&quot;: {\n                &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n            },\n            &quot;imgCredit&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n            &quot;useVideo&quot;: false,\n            &quot;video&quot;: false\n        }\n    ],\n    &quot;type&quot;: &quot;border&quot;,\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;full&quot;,\n    &quot;quicklinks&quot;: {\n        &quot;show&quot;: false,\n        &quot;selects&quot;: []\n    },\n    &quot;useBreadcrumb&quot;: false\n}\">\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader><jgu-base-section react-props=\"{&quot;color&quot;:&quot;dark&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;padding&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"jgu-bgsection bg bg-dark\"><div class=\"content padding-medium\"><jgu-base-heading react-props=\"{\n    &quot;color&quot;: &quot;default&quot;,\n    &quot;tags&quot;: {\n        &quot;htmlTag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;,\n        &quot;classTag&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;tag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;heading&quot;: &quot;Antonia Fendt&quot;,\n    &quot;textAlign&quot;: &quot;left&quot;,\n    &quot;anchor&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;index&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n}\"><\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><jgu-base-image react-props=\"{\n    &quot;image&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-scaled.jpeg&quot;,\n        &quot;id&quot;: 16370,\n        &quot;credit&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;title&quot;: &quot;Bild Antonia Fendt 2&quot;,\n        &quot;width&quot;: 2048,\n        &quot;height&quot;: 2560,\n        &quot;srcset&quot;: &quot;https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-scaled.jpeg 2048w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb07-ifeas\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/396\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/Bild-Antonia-Fendt-2-1638x2048.jpeg 1638w&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;hasLightbox&quot;: false,\n    &quot;caption&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;imgWidth&quot;: 0,\n    &quot;link&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;target&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;rel&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n    }\n}\" class=\"align-\">\n    \n<\/jgu-base-image><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><jgu-base-collapsiblearea class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-jgu-collapsible-area-is-layout-flow\" react-props=\"{&quot;visibleLines&quot;:5,&quot;collapse&quot;:&quot;always&quot;,&quot;collapsedHeight&quot;:150,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Portrait&lt;\\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;Antonia Fendt studied linguistics, anthropology, and African linguistics. Her main areas of interest include sociolinguistics as well as phenomena of language contact and linguistic variation, particularly in Bantu languages of East and Central Africa. &lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;Since July 2024, she has been working as a research associate at Mainz University Library in the research project Costima (\\&quot;Counter-Hegemonic Voices in Music Archives: Political Readings, Contextualizations, and Contemporary Relevance\\&quot;). 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Her main areas of interest include sociolinguistics as well as phenomena of language contact and linguistic variation, particularly in Bantu languages of East and Central Africa. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\n<p>Since July 2024, she has been working as a research associate at Mainz University Library in the research project Costima (\"Counter-Hegemonic Voices in Music Archives: Political Readings, Contextualizations, and Contemporary Relevance\"). In her current research, she investigates Lingala-language music from the African Music Archive (AMA) using cognitive and structural linguistic methods, focusing on hidden political messages in song lyrics from the Mobutu era. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- \/wp:jgu\/collapsible-area -->\n\n<!-- wp:jgu\/accordion {\"selected\":2} -->\n<!-- wp:jgu\/accordion-item {\"title\":\"About\",\"init\":false,\"slug\":\"zur-person\"} -->\n<!-- wp:table {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Seit 10\/2024<\/strong><br \/>Doctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (working title of the PhD project:<strong> <\/strong>Lingala voices of dissent: A linguistic approach to political messaging in Mobutu\u2019s Zaire, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Since 07\/2024<\/strong><br \/>Research Associate in the project \"Counter-Hegemonic Voices in Music Archives: Political Readings, Contextualizations, and Contemporary Relevance\", Mainz University Library <\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>2020-2024<\/strong><br \/>M.A. in African Linguistics: Language and Society in Africa \u2013 Historical and Social Contexts at Goethe University Frankfurt<br \/>(MA thesis title: Otjiherero in Botswana: A contrastive assessment of its linguistic distance from the Namibian standard variety)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>2016-2020 <\/strong><br \/>B.A. in Linguistics and Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<br \/>(BA thesis title: A comparison of nominal and verbal morphology in the African youth language Yabacr\u00e2ne and its base language Kivu Swahili)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:table -->\n<!-- \/wp:jgu\/accordion-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:jgu\/accordion-item {\"title\":\"Contact\",\"init\":false,\"slug\":\"kontakt\"} -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\n<p>Antonia Fendt <strong><br \/><\/strong>Room 00-111<br \/>University library<br \/>Jakob-Welder-Weg 6<br \/>Tel.: 06131-39 31343<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:a.fendt@ub.uni-mainz.de\">a.fendt@ub.uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\n<p>Office hours after appointment via e-mail<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- \/wp:jgu\/accordion-item -->\n<!-- \/wp:jgu\/accordion --><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:column --><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:columns --><\/div><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:jgu\/section -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23773,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23767\/revisions\/23773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}