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Dr. Doris Loehr
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
Function
- Academic coordinator of the unit Internationalisation & Public Engagement within the 'Africa Multiple' Cluster of Excellence at University of Bayreuth
Personal Information
Doris Löhr holds a PhD in African Linguistics from Goethe-University Frankfurt.
Currently she works as academic coordinator of the unit Internationalisation & Public Engagement within the 'Africa Multiple' Cluster of Excellence at University of Bayreuth. In 2012 she became the academic coordinator and managing director of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies for the project “Future Africa - Visions in Time” (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF), a position she held for six years.
After she had received her Master degree (Magister in African Languages and Cultures, Social Anthropology, and Education Sciences) from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, she worked at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies for two years as a lecturer.
During her doctoral studies within the framework of the DFG-funded interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre SFB 268 ’History of Culture and Language in the Natural Environment of the West African Savannah‘, at Goethe-University Frankfurt, she undertook multifaceted linguistic field research in North-Eastern Nigeria and completed a grammatical description of the formerly undocumented Malgwa language (Afroasiatic language phylum, Chadic language family).
Subsequently she held the position as a lecturer and postdoctoral staff at the Institute of African Studies at Leipzig University for five years before she joined a DFG funded joint project of the Department of Asia-Africa Studies at University of Hamburg together with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as postdoctoral research fellow for three years. Within the general topic ’A study of Old Kanembu in Early West African Qur’anic manuscripts and Islamic recitations (Tarjumo) in the light of Kanuri-Kanembu dialects spoken around Lake Chad‘, she focussed on a linguistic description of the Kanembu varieties spoken in Nigeria, Niger and Chad.
During the last five years Doris Löhr has participated in regular advanced trainings for science managers, organised by the Zentrum für Wissenschaftsmanagement at University of Speyer, in the areas of leadership, coordination, quality management and crossmedial science communication.
Currently, she serves as a board member of African Studies Association Germany (VAD) and as chairperson of CrossArea Verband für Transregionale Studien, Vergleichende Area Studies und Global Studies e.V. Löhr is also founding member of the Fachverband Afrikanistik, a member of the Society for Endangered Languages and associated member of the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung, Goethe-University. In 2022, she was appointed as a member of the ZIAF’s Scientific Advisory Board.
Publications
Monographs/ Edited Books
| 2022 |
African Studies Centres Around the World. A Network-Based Inventory. München: AVM.edition (Co-editor Ute Fendler), open access https://www.avm-verlag.de/res/user/avm/media/9783960915874-fendler-africanstudiescentres.pdf |
| 2012 |
Kanuri, Borno and Beyond. Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. 208 S. (Co-editors Eva Rothmaler & Georg Ziegelmeyer) |
| 2011 |
Topics in Chadic Linguistics VI. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Leipzig, June 11-13 2009. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. 203 S. (Co-editor Ari Awagana) |
| 2004 |
Mensch und Natur in Westafrika. – Ergebnisse aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne". [Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna] Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. 537 S. (Co-editors Klaus-Dieter Albert & Katharina Neumann) |
| 2002 |
Die Sprache der Malgwa – Nárá Málgwa. Grammatische Erstbeschreibung einer zentraltschadischen Sprache Nordost-Nigerias. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 336 S. |
Articles in Edited Books and Journals
| 2017 |
Grammaticalized verbal forms in Kanuri/Kanembu. For Proceedings of 7th WOCAL congress, August 2012, Buea (Cameroun). (with Eva Rothmaler) Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing, 2017. - p 564-591 |
| 2011 |
Die Kanuri/Kanembu Manuskriptkultur / The Kanuri/Kanembu manuscript culture. In: Quenzer, J. (Ed.) Ausstellungskatalog Faszination Handschriften. 2000 Jahre Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa. Manuscript cultures, Newsletter 4. Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut. 61-67. (with D. Bondarev) |
| 2011 |
Differential subject marking in Kanuri: agentivity, pragmatics, and split-intransitive. In: Löhr, D., E. Rothmaler & G. Ziegelmeyer (Ed.) Kanuri, Borno and Beyond - Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. Köln: Köppe. 27-57. (with D. Bondarev, P. Jaggar & A. Tijani). |
| 2011 |
Bə́lantə́ zə́la átə yáwe ‘sending an eagle up to water’ – Multiword expressions in Malgwa. In: Löhr, D. & A. Awagana (Ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics VI. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Leipzig, June 10-13, 2009. Köln: Köppe. 131-143. |
| 2010 |
Coding temporal subordination in Malgwa. In: Ziegelmeyer, G. & N. Cyffer (Ed.) Aspects of Co- and Subordination. Köln: Köppe. 101-117. |
| 2009 |
Reduction of dialectal features in Kanuri as outcome of language contact. In: Cyffer, N. & G. Ziegelmeyer (Ed.) When Languages Meet – Language Contact and Change in West Africa. Köln: Köppe. 23-41. |
| 2009 |
Lake Chad and the migratory routes to Borno: A linguistic trail? In: Tourneux, H. (Ed.) XIIIth Mega-Chad Conference “Migrations and spatial mobility in the Lake Chad Basin”, Maroua, 31.10.-3.11.2005. Montpellier/Marseille: Editions de l'IRD, collection "Colloques et seminaires". 665-681. |
| 2009 |
Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (Ed.) Lexical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 166-190. (with H.E. Wolff & A. Awagana) |
| 2009 |
Loanwords in Hausa. Results from the Loanword typology project. In: Rothmaler, E. (Ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics V. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Bayreuth, 30-31 October 2007. Köln: Köppe. 37-49. (with A. Awagana) |
| 2008 |
Convergence in Saharan and Chadic Tense-Aspect-Systems. Afrika und Übersee 88: 265-299. Special volume: Johannes Lukas (1901-1980) - 25th anniversary of his death. (with H. E. Wolff) |
| 2008 |
Revisiting the aspectual domain in Malgwa (Central Chadic). In: Takács, G. (Ed.) Semito-Hamitic Festschrift for A.B. Dolgopolsky and H. Jungraithmayr. Berlin: Reimer. 173-185. |
| 2007 |
Predication focus in Malgwa. In: Tourneux, H. (Ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV: Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 3rd Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Villejuif, November 24-25, 2005. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. 87-101. |
| 2007 |
Nigerian Kanuri (Sub-)Dialects Reconsidered - a Corpus-based Approach. In: Payne, D. L. & M. Reh (Ed.) Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics. Proceedings of 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, Aug. 22-25, 2001. Köln: Köppe. 165-182. |
| 2006 |
Encoding Focus in Verbal Morphology: Predication Focus and the “Kanuri Focus Shift”. In: Fiedler, I. & A. Schwarz (Ed.) Papers on Information Structure in African Languages: Berlin: ZASPiL, 46: 185-209. (with H. E. Wolff) |
| 2004 |
Types, patterns and kinds of lexical distribution and their correlations. In: Ibriszimow, D. & E. Rothmaler (Ed.) Tesserae of Borno. In memoriam William Seidensticker. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter 16: 26-50. (with D. Ibriszimow) |
| 2004 |
Westwärts zieht der Wind - Migrationen im südlichen Tschadseegebiet. In: Albert, K.D., D. Löhr & K. Neumann (Ed.) Mensch und Natur in Westafrika. – Ergebnisse aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne". Weinheim: Wiley. 169-195. (with H. Jungraithmayr & R. Leger) |
| 2003 |
The Malgwa - a historical overview and some ethnographic notes. Borno Museum Society Newsletter 56 & 57: 23-43. |
| 2003 |
Locative-directional verbal extensions and prepositions in Malgwa. In: Lébikaza, K. K. (Ed.) Actes du 3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine Lomé 2000. [World Congress of African Linguistics 3]. Köln: Köppe. 189-206. |
| 2002 |
The Malgwa in Maiduguri. In: Kawka, R. (Ed.) From Bulamari to Yerwa to Metropolitan Maiduguri - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Capital of Borno. Köln: Köppe. 127-143. |
| 2001 |
Saharanisch. In: Mabe, J. E. (Ed.) Afrika-Lexikon. Ein Kontinent in 1000 Stichwörtern. Stuttgart, Wuppertal: J.B. Metzler, Peter Hammer. 532. |
| 2001 |
Masakwa from a linguistic point of view. In: Kahlheber, S. & K. Neumann (Ed.) Man and environment in the West African Sahel –- an interdisciplinary approach. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, 17. Frankfurt. 85-103. |
| 2001 |
Historical implications of a linguistic environment – towards a systemic approach. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium 1999. Berichte des SFBs 268, 14. Frankfurt. 179-190. (mit D. Ibriszimow, R. Kawka, C. Mtaku, R. Vogels & I.M. Waziri). |
| 1999 |
Traces of a lost gender distinction? A Study of Malgwa (Central Chadic) zoonymes. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter 11: 145-155. |
| 1998 |
Sprachkontakte bei den Malgwa (Gamergu) in Nordostnigeria. In: Fiedler, I., C. Griefenow-Mewis & B. Reineke (Ed.) Afrikanische Sprachen im Brennpunkt der Forschung. Linguistische Beiträge zum 12. Afrikanistentag Berlin, 3.-6.10.1996. Köln: Köppe. 251-269. |
| 1997 |
The development of Kanuri orthography from 1854 until the present. In: Cyffer, N. & Th. Geider (Ed.) Advances in Kanuri scholarship. Köln: Köppe. 77-113. |
| 1996 |
Masakwa dry season cropping in the Chad basin. In: SFB 268 (Ed.) Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereiches 268, Vorträge Internationales Symposium, Frankfurt/Main 13.12.-16.12.1995. Frankfurt. 349-356. (with B. Zach, H. Kirscht, K. Neumann, E. Platte) |
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
Research Interest
Regional:
- West Africa
- Lake Chad region (Nigeria, Niger, Chad)
Thematic:
- Areal linguistics (language and migration, language contact), Endangered languages
- Chadic (Afroasiatic) and Kanuri/Kanembu (Nilosaharan) grammars
- The use of African languages in the social media
Selected Papers:
- “Collaborative interdisciplinary research projects as catalysts for research on
African languages - lessons learned?” – Invited Keynote at the conference of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, “Enhancing Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research on Languages in Eastern Africa”, in Nairobi & virtually, 13th August 2021 - “The use of African languages in the social media and their impact on
socio-cultural trends and developments”, paper at the Workshop “Future Africa – Visions in Time”, organised by the Bayreuth Academy and Centro de Estudos
Afro-Orientais (CEAO), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador de Bahia, 25-26.4.2019. - ”Current African Studies in Germany: How can Prospective Africanists be
Prepared to Encounter and Study “Africa Multiple”?”, paper at the Joint
Conference Seoul/ Hankuk IAS-HUFS and IAS- Universität Bayreuth, “African Studies: 'The Different and The Similar- Africa in an Ever-changing, Multi-faceted
and Multi-layered World”, South Korea, 25.-28.10.2018. - “Networking in African Studies“, paper at the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) Second Biennial Conference, “African Studies and Global Politics”, IAS University of Ghana, Accra, 12-14.10.2017.
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
Publications
2024
Martina Drescher: Doing ethics : An outline of a constructivist and phenomenological approach of moral communication. - Bayreuth, 2024. - VI, 16 S.
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007620
2022
Ndongo Samba Sylla: Live as African : On the Relevance of Thomas Sankara’s Agenda for Economic Liberation. - Bayreuth, 2022. - VII, 19 S.
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006796
African Studies Centres Around the World : A Network-Based Inventory. - Ute Fendler, Doris Löhr (Hrsg.). - München : AVM – Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 2022. - 220 S.
doi:10.23780/9783960915874
2017
Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler: Grammaticalized verbal forms in Kanuri/Kanembu. In: Gratien G: Atindogbé, Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012. Volume 2. - Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing, 2017. - S. 564-591.
2011
Doris Löhr: Bə́lantə́ zə́la átə yáwe "sending an eagle up to water" : Multiword expressions in Malgwa. In: Doris Löhr, Ari Awagana (Hrsg.): Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Teil VI. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Leipzig, June 10-13, 2009.. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - S. 131-143.
Dmitry Bondarev, Philip J. Jaggar, Doris Löhr, Abba Isa Tijani: Differential subject marking in Kanuri : agentivity, pragmatics, and split-intransitive. In: Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler, Georg Ziegelmeyer (Hrsg.): Kanuri, Borno and Beyond : Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - S. 27-57.
Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler, Georg Ziegelmeyer: Introduction. In: Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler, Georg Ziegelmeyer (Hrsg.): Kanuri, Borno and Beyond : Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011.
Dmitry Bondarev, Doris Löhr: Die Kanuri/Kanembu-Manuskriptkultur = The Kanuri/Kanembu manuscript culture. In: Manuscript Cultures : Newsletter, 4 (2011). - S. 61-67.
Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Teil VI. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Leipzig, June 11-13 2009. - Doris Löhr, Ari Awagana (Hrsg.). - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - 202 S.
Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler, Georg Ziegelmeyer: Kanuri, Borno and Beyond : Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - VIII, 208 S.
2010
Doris Löhr: Coding temporal subordination in Malgwa. In: Georg Ziegelmeyer, Norbert Cyffer (Hrsg.): Aspects of co- and subordination : case Studies from African, Slavonic, and Turkic Languages. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2010. - S. 101-117.
2009
Doris Löhr: Lake Chad and the migratory routes to Borno : a linguistic trail?. In: Henry Tourneux, Noe Woin (Hrsg.): Migration et mobilité dans le bassin du lac Tchad : Actes du XIIIe colloque international du Réseau Méga-Tchad, Maroua, 31 octobre-3 novembre 2005. - Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2009. - S. 665-681.
Ari Awagana, Doris Löhr: Loanwords in Hausa : Results from the Loanword typology project. In: Eva Rothmaler (Hrsg.): Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Band V. Papers from the 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Bayreuth, October 30-31 2007. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009. - S. 37-49.
Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff, Ari Awagana: Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language. In: Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor (Hrsg.): Loanwords in the World's Languages : A Comparative Handbook. - Berlin : de Gruyter Mouton, 2009. - S. 166-190.
Doris Löhr: Reduction of dialectal features in Kanuri as outcome of language contact. In: Norbert Cyffer, Georg Ziegelmeyer (Hrsg.): When Languages Meet : Language Contact and Change in West Africa. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009. - S. 23-41.
2008
Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff: Convergence in Saharan and Chadic Tense-Aspect-Systems. In: Afrika und Übersee, 88 (2008). - S. 265-299.
Doris Löhr: Revisiting the aspectual domain in Malgwa (Central Chadic). In: Gabor Takács (Hrsg.): Semito-Hamitic Festschrift for A.B. Dolgopolsky & H. Jungraithmayr.. - Berlin : Reimer Verlag, 2008. - S. 173-185.
2007
Doris Löhr: Frajzyngier, Zygmunt ; Johnston, Eric: A Grammar of Mina. Berlin, 2005. In:Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 28, S. 236-238: 2007
Doris Löhr: Nigerian Kanuri (Sub-)Dialects Reconsidered : a Corpus-based Approach. In: Doris Payne, Mechthild Reh (Hrsg.): Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics : Proceedings of 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, Aug. 22-25, 2001. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007. - S. 165-182.
Doris Löhr: Predication focus in Malgwa. In: Henry Tourneux (Hrsg.): Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Band IV. Comparative and Descriptive Studies : Papers from the 3rd Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, November 24-25, 2005. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007. - S. 87-101.
2006
Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff: Encoding Focus in Verbal Morphology : Predication Focus and the "Kanuri Focus Shift". In: Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz (Hrsg.): Papers on Information Structure in African Languages. - Berlin : ZAS, 2006. - S. 185-209.
2004
Mensch und Natur in Westafrika : Ergebnisse aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne". - Doris Löhr, Klaus-Dieter Albert, Katharina Neumann (Hrsg.). - Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2004. - 537 S.
Doris Löhr, Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Rudolf Leger: See und Sand – der Tschadsee in Nordost-Nigeria und der Sahel Burkina Fasos. 1. "Westwärts weht der Wind" - Migrationen im südlichen Tschadseegebiet. In: Klaus-Dieter Albert, Doris Löhr, Katharina Neumann (Hrsg.): Mensch und Natur in Westafrika : Ergebnisse aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne". - Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2004. - S. 169-195.
doi:10.1002/3527605754
Dymitr Ibriszimow, Doris Löhr: Types, patterns and kinds of lexical distribution and their correlation. In: Dymitr Ibriszimow, Eva Rothmaler (Hrsg.): Tesserae of Borno : in memory of William Seidensticker (1938-1996). - Köln : Köppe, 2004. - S. 26-50.
2003
Doris Löhr: Awagana, Elhadji Ari: Grammatik des Buduma. Münster, 2001. In:Afrika und Übersee, 86, S. 267-274: 2003
Doris Löhr: Locative-directional verbal extensions and related prepositions in Malgwa. In: Kézié K. Lébikaza (Hrsg.): Actes du 3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine, Lomé 2000. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2003. - S. 189-206.
Doris Löhr, Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay: The Malgwa : a historical overview and some ethnographic notes. In: Borno Museum Society Newsletter, 56/57 (2003). - S. 23-43.
2002
Doris Löhr: The Malgwa in Maiduguri. In: Rupert Kawka (Hrsg.): From Bulamari to Yerwa to Metropolitan Maiduguri : Interdisciplinary Studies on the Capital of Borno. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2002. - S. 127-143.
Doris Löhr: Die Sprache der Malgwa (Nárá Málgwa) : Grammatische Erstbeschreibung einer zentraltschadischen Sprache Nordost-Nigerias. - Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2002. - 336 S.
Doris Löhr: The Malgwa in Maiduguri. In: Rupert Kawka (Hrsg.): From Bulamari to Yerwa to Metropolitan Maiduguri : Interdisciplinary Studies on the Capital of Borno. - Köln : Köppe, 2002. - S. 127-143.
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006015
2001
Dymitr Ibriszimow, Rupert Kawka, Doris Löhr, Christopher Yusuf Mtaku, Raimund Vogels, Ibrahim M. Waziri: Historical Implications of a Linguistic Environment : Towards a Systemic Approach. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium 1999. - Frankfurt am Main : 2001. - S. 179-190.
1997
Doris Löhr: The development of Kanuri orthography from 1854 until the present. In: Norbert Cyffer, Thomas Geider (Hrsg.): Advances in Kanuri scholarship. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1997. - S. 77-113.
1996
Norbert Cyffer, Doris Löhr, Editha Platte, Abba Isa Tijani: Adaptation and delimitation : some thoughts about the Kanurization of the Gamergu. In: Vorträge: Internationales Symposium - SFB 268 - Frankfurt/Main, 13.12.-16.12.1995. - Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 1996. - S. 49-66.
Barbara Zach, Holger Kirscht, Doris Löhr, Katharina Neumann, Editha Platte: Masakwa dry season cropping in the Chad Basin. In: Vorträge: Internationales Symposium - SFB 268 - Frankfurt/Main, 13.12.-16.12.1995. - Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 1996. - S. 349-356.
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
Dr. Doris Loehr
Academic Coordinator / Ressort Internationalisation & Public Engagement in the Cluster of Excellence "Africa Multiple"
Office: Nürnberger Str. 38 ZAPF Gebäude 3, Room 3.3.10
Phone: (+49) 921 / 55-4794
E-mail: Doris.loehr@uni-bayreuth.de