Research interets
African Pre- and Protohistory:
Pre- and protohistoric figurines and their archaeological finding context, intentional depositions, rituals, fragmentation, development of complex societies in the Sub-Saharan Africa
Regional and chronological focus: West Africa, LSA, Iron Age, Protohistory
Method:
Literature study, comparative analyses, ethnographic analogies,
Expedition tours to museums, galleries, collections, universites, conference trips
Research projects
PhD-Projekt at the Research Training Group „Value and Equivalence“: “Form, context and function of prehistoric sculptures in Nigeria and other cultural complexes in West Africa” (Working Title)
Academic career
since June 2016
Research associate and PhD student in the Research Training Group „Value and Equivalence“, funded by the German Research Association
May 2016
Final degree Magister Artium (M.A.) in the Pre- and Protohistory with a thesis on: „Archaeological finding contexts of terracottas of the Nok Culture in Central Nigeria (1500 BC till the turn of the eras) in selected features“
2011-2016
Student research assistant in the work group African Archaeology and Archaeobotany at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Dept. III – Pre- and Protohistory
2011–2016
Study of Pre- and Protohistory (major subject), Archaeology and History of the Roman provinces and Romance Studies (emphasis: Portuguese) at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
2008–2011
Study of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology (major subject), Archaeology of the Roman provinces and Romance Studies (emphasis: Portuguese) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Other activities
2015
Organisation of and participation in an archaeological field survey in Namibia, Goethe University Frankfurt, with Prof. Dr. P. Breunig
2014 - 2016
Student research assistant for an exhibition of the Research Training Group „Value and Equivalence“ at the Goethe University Frankfurt „Menschen | Tun | Dinge. Forschungen zu Wert und Wandel von Objekten“ in the Goethe University and online at www.menschen-tun-dinge.de, A. Bokern, Prof. Dr. H.-P. Hahn und Prof. Dr. F. Kemmers
2014
Student research assistant in the archive of the SENCKENBERG Gesellschaft für Naturforschung in Frankfurt, PD Dr. J. Scholz
Organisation of and participation in an archaeological field trip in Namibia, Goethe University Frankfurt, with Prof. Dr. P. Breunig
2013–2014
Student research assistant for the anniversary exhibition of the Goethe University Frankfurt „Ich sehe wunderbare Dinge. 100 Jahre Sammlungen der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main“ in the Museum Giersch in Frankfurt, Dr. Ch. Trümpler
2013
Participation in an excavation of the Goethe University Frankfurt on a medieval blacksmith working area in Bartholomäberg in the Montafon (Austria), Prof. Dr. R. Krause
Furthermore: field survey and installation of the exhibition „Archäologie im Gebirge – älteste Besiedlung und Bergbau im Montafon“ in the Frühmesshaus Bartholomäberg
Participation in an excavation of the Julius-Maximilians-UniversityWürzburg on an Urnfield hilltop settlement on the Bullenheimer Berg in Lower Franconia, Dr. M. Schussmann
Student research assistant for the exhibition of the Research Training Group „Value and Equivalence“ at the Goethe University Frankfurt „Werte im Widerstreit. Von Bräuten, Muscheln, Geld und Kupfer“ in the Bonn Science Center, Dr. Ch. Trümpler
Participation in the installation of the exhibition „NOK. Ein Ursprung afrikanischer Skulptur“ in the Liebieghaus Frankfurt, Prof. Dr. V. Brinkmann, Prof. Dr. P. Breunig
Organisation of and participation in an archaeological study trip to Xanten and Nijmegen (Netherlands), Goethe University Frankfurt, with Prof. Dr. Fleur Kemmers
2012
Student research assistant for the exhibition of the Research Training Group „Value and Equivalence“ at the Goethe University Frankfurt „Werte im Widerstreit. Von Bräuten, Muscheln, Geld und Kupfer“ in the Hesse Ministry of Science and Art in Wiesbaden, Dr. Ch. Trümpler
2011
Participation in an excavation of the Goethe University Frankfurt on a Iron Age settlement site in Bartholomäberg in the Montafon (Austria), Prof. Dr. R. Krause, Dr. J. Friederich
Participation in an excavation of the Goethe University Frankfurt on an Early Imperial fort settlement in Groß-Gerau/Wallerstätten, Hesse, Dr. Th. Maurer
Internship at the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe
2009
Participation in an excavation of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich on a Hallstatt burnt offering site in Farchant near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Prof. Dr. A. Lang, Dr. H. Schwarzberg
2006
Participation in an excavation of the company ARDI Munich on an Urnfield cemetery in Munich-Trudering, H.-P. Volpert M.A.
Internship at the archaeological state collection in Munich
2004
Internship at the archaeological and anthropological department of the National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek
Publications
2018
Preliminary comparative analyzes of prehistoric figurine traditions in Western Africa.
West African Journal of Archaeology 47 (submitted).
2016
Die archäologischen Fundkontexte von Terrakotten der Nok-Kultur Zentralnigerias (1500 v. Chr. bis um die Zeitenwende) an ausgewählten Befunden. M.A. thesis, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 2016. Frankfurt am Main: Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45704 (called on the 03.05.2018).
2014
Schweizer Messer der Steinzeit. In: Trümpler, Ch. et al. (Eds.), Ich sehe wunderbare Dinge. 100 Jahre Sammlungen der Goethe-Universität. Ausstellungskatalog (Ostfildern 2014), 204 f.
Wie wo wenn die Zeit vergeht. In: Trümpler, Ch. et al. (Eds.), Ich sehe wunderbare Dinge. 100 Jahre Sammlungen der Goethe-Universität. Ausstellungskatalog (Ostfildern 2014), 272 f.
