People A-Z

Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser

Department of egyptology and coptology, University of Münster

Angelika Lohwasser studied Egyptology, Sudan archaeology and Archaeology at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her thesis discussed the queens of Kush (800-350 BCE) and her habilitation focused on the cemetery of Sanam in Sudan. Since 2009 she is full professor for Egyptology at the University of Muenster and director of archaeological fieldwork in the Bayuda desert in Sudan. Her publications deal with various culture-historical, historical and archaeological aspects of the cultures of Ancient Sudan and Late Period Egypt.

Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz

Department of Social and Cultural Anthroplogy, University of Münster

My research, publications, and teaching are centered on the Anthropology of Religion, of Mental Health and Spiritual Wellbeing, Political Anthropology, Islam in Africa, Gender Studies and Media Studies. I also bring to my research and teaching a strong background in critical theory, social theory, and the anthropology of social organization. I have extensive field research experience in West and East Africa, particularly in southern Mali and southwestern Uganda.

Dr. Souleymane Diallo

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Research Focus: Migration studies, Gender, Anthropology of Religion, Political Anthropology, Memory Politics, and Ethnolographic Filmmaking

Prof. Dr. Franziska Dübgen

Department of Philosophy

Franziska Dübgen is a professor at the department of philosophy of the University of Münster with a specialization in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Her research interests include transcultural philosophy with a focus on Africa, critical legal studies, punishment, postcolonialism, gender, critical theory and theories of epistemic injustice.

Lisa Hannen

Student Assistant for the Cluster of Excellence 'Religion and Politics' in the Department of Ethnology

Emma S. Wendt M.A.

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Research Focus: Arabic and Islamic Science, Anthropology of Religion, Islam in Africa, Climate Change in Africa