Aesthetics, material culture, consumption and art and their significance for processes of social articulation, knowledge production and for the constitution of trans / locality; Ethnology of the body and the senses; Islam and gender in their global embedding; Global interconnectivity and mobility; Cultural interactions and the resulting processes of change in the past and present; "(Post) Modern" in Africa; Political forms of organization; Religious and economic ethnology; Museums, Curation and Heritage Provenance Research of Ethnological Collections; Indian Ocean and East African coastal cities, Central, Northeast and East Africa; Practical theory, phenomenology, material turn; 19th to 21st century
Medical anthropology; Assisted reproductive technologies; Genetic testing; Anthropology of the body and senses; Anthropology of violence; Field research methods; Digital anthropology.
Visual Culture Studies / Visual Studies in Communication; Media change under the conditions of digitization and globalization; Gender Media Studies; Cultural Studies and Media Analysis; Visual research methods and qualitative methods of media analysis
