Onderzoeksprojecten

Lopende onderzoeksprojecten

• CongUbangi (ERC, 2024-2027) – The Congo-Ubangi watershed: An interdisciplinary approach to the genesis of a linguistic accretion zone in Central Africa
• OL4D (VLIR-UOS, 2022-2027) and Young People Coping with Crisis: Oral Narratives and Crisis Management in Kenya and Ethiopia

Samenwerkingssprojecten

• Institutional cooperation with Mzumbe University (MU-T), Tanzania (VLIR-UOS)

Afgelopen onderzoeksprojecten

• BantuFirst (ERC, 2018 – 2022) – The first Bantu speakers South of the rainforest: A cross-disciplinary approach to human migration, language spread, climate change and early farming in Late Holocene Central Africa
• CongoConnect (2014-2019) – Objects and power institutions in north-east Congo (1800-1960)
• KongoKing (ERC, 2012- 2016) – An interdisciplinary approach to the origins of the Kongo kingdom
• Kwilu Bantu (Volkswagen Foundation, 2012 – 2015) – Documentation of cultural heritage in three endangered Bantu languages of the Kwilu (DR Congo): Ngong, Nsong and Nsambaan

Doctorale onderzoeksprojecten

Voor lopende onderzoeksprojecten van doctoraatsstudenten, zie onderzoekers.