• African Studies
• Ethnology
• Romance studies
• Phonetic
• Geography

• Women in African Linguistics (until February 2019, DFG)
• A grammatical description of Zande (until September 2019, DFG)
• A Grammar of Lingala (until 2020)
• Einsatz der Force Publique außerhalb der DR Kongo (until 2020)

• Noun class languages
• Sociolinguistics (african based Pidgins and Creols)
• Sango (ZAR)
• Ubangi languages
• Zande
• African scripts
• Internet as research tool

• Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaïre)
• Central African Republic
• South Africa
• Republic of the Congo
• Uganda

see List of Publications

• 2016    ' «Head» in some non-Bantu languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo', Panel: Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term 'head' von Iwona Kraska-Szlenk 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 15.–17. September 2016.
• 2017    in cooperation with Germain Landi 'How to get data on Sango Godobé', Critical Youth Language Workshop. Rethinking methodology, sociolinguistic theory and data, 20. Februar 2017.
• 2017    'Breaking taboos in fieldwork situations.' Workshop: Taboo in Language and Discourse. Spa, Belgien 30. September -1. Oktober 2017.
• 2017    'Talking about cannibalism is tabu - sometimes'. International Workshop: The secret and the sacred: working with such knowledge. James Cook University Australia, 15.-16. November 2017.
• 2017    'Bodypart terms as a linguistic topic'. Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage: A Comparative and Typological Perspective,. Universität Warschau, 8.–9. Dezember 2017.
• 2018    'Phasal polarity in Zande'. International Conference on The Expression of Phasal Polarity in sub-Saharan African Languages, Institut für Afrikakunde, Universität Hamburg, 2.-4. Februar 2018.
• 2018    'How female linguists overcome silence', Talk and Silence: Language in Colonial Context, organisiert von Anne Storch, Eeva Sippola und Reem Bassiouney. American University Cairo, 28. Februar – 1. März 2018.
• 2018    'Wie gut und umfangreich oder wie unzureichend sind sprachliche Daten, und wie kann ich das überprüfen?', Daten, Sammlung, Kritik: Reflexion zu Disziplinarität und Absurdität, 26.-27. April 2018, Turistarama, Köln.
• 2018    'Mandombe, a script which is learned but not used.' Workshop The Oral and the Written Intertwined: Perspectives on African Cultures. Warschau 18. Mai 2018.
• 2018    'Publications have no gender: Women in African linguistics.' Panel: The Colonial Auto-biography of Linguistics von Ana Deumert und Anne Storch auf dem International Congress of Linguistics, Kapstadt, 2.-6. Juli 2018.
• 2018    'The body as a toolbox in Zande' auf der Tagung The Body as a Toolbox, 4.-5. Oktober 2018.
• 2018    'Women in African studies', Workshop Women, Gender, and Language in Africa, Fes 30. November – 1. Dezember 2018

The Body as a Toolbox, October 4-5, 2018, at University of Cologne  (in collaboration with Steffen Lorenz)