The Department of African Studies is engaged with scientific research based on the results of fieldwork, laboratory and archival-library studies in the field of archaeology, history, conservation and related sciences concerning the areas of cultures and civilizations developing in Africa, with a particular focus on the northern coast of the continent and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Department members:
- Department head: Dr. Robert Mahler
- Dr. Patryk Chudzik
- Dr. Lorenzo de Lellis
- Dr. Katarzyna de Lellis-Danys
- Dr. Agata Deptuła, ERC grant team
- Dr. Mariusz Drzewiecki, Sonata 11 and Opus 15 grants
- Dr. Marcin Kotyl, Sonatina 2 grant
- Dr. Iwona J. Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, Opus 21 grant
- Dr. Tomasz Michalik, “Archeooriental Studies”
- Dr. Robert J. Stark, “Archeooriental Studies”
- Dr. Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczyńska
- Dr. Dawid F. Wieczorek
- Dr. Magdalena M. Woźniak
- Dr. Maciej Wyżgoł, ERC grant team; Preludium 19 grant
- Mgr Tomasz Barański
- Mgr Ewa Czyżewska-Zalewska
- Mgr Adrian Chlebowski, ERC grant team
Current field projects:
Egypt:
- Alexandria, Kom el-Dikka; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Grzegorz Majcherek (PCMA UW)
- Berenike; expedition head: Dr. Mariusz Gwiazda (Faculty of Archaeology UW), Prof. Steven E. Sidebotham (University of Delaware)
- Deir el-Bahari: North Asasif: expedition head: Dr. Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczyńska (PCMA UW)
- Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Hatshepsut; expedition head: Dr. Patryk Chudzik (PCMA UW)
- Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Thutmosis III; expedition head: Dr. Monika Dolińska (IMOC PAS)
- Marea; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Derda (Faculty of Archaeology UW)
- Marina el-Alamein; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Krzysztof Jakubiak (Faculty of Archaeology UW)
- Naqlun; expedition head: Dr. Robert Mahler (PCMA UW)
- Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Ramesses VI (KV 9); expedition head: Prof. Adam Łukaszewicz (Faculty of Archaeology UW)
Sudan:
- Dongola; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Artur Obłuski (PCMA UW)
- El-Detti; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Mahmoud El-Tayeb (PCMA UW)
- El-Zuma; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Mahmoud El-Tayeb (PCMA UW)
- Ghazali; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Artur Obłuski, prof. UW (PCMA UW)
- Soba; expedition head: Dr. Mariusz Drzewiecki (PCMA UW)
- Tanqasi; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Mahmoud El-Tayeb (PCMA UW)
Tunisia:
- Mustis; expedition head: Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Waliszewski (Faculty of Archaeology UW)
Current grant projects:
- Muslim women in Fatimid Alexandria: Why did they die young?; SONATA-18, 2022/47/D/HS3/02162; head of the project: Dr. Robert Mahler
- Life in the Makurian Metropolis: A Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Medieval Old Dongola, Sudan; OPUS 23, panel: HS3; 2022/45/B/HS3/01708; P.I.: Dr. Robert Stark
- „Kyriakós oíkos? A diachronic conceptualization of space and function in medieval Nubian churches”; SONATA BIS 11, panel: HS3; 2021/42/E/HS3/00381; P.I.: Assoc. Prof. Artur Obłuski
- Life and Death in Trying Times: A Bioarchaeological Study of the Effect of Socio–political and Climatic Changes on the Memphite population of Saqqara, Egypt; OPUS 21. panel: HS3; 2021/41/B/HS3/0047; P.I: Dr. Iwona J. Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin
- UMMA – Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city; ERC Starting Grant; P.I.: Assoc. Prof. Artur Obłuski
Project Archive
- Histories Imprinted on Floors. Functioning of Households in Old Dongola after the Fall of Makuria in the Light of the Multielemental Analysis of Occupational Surfaces; PRELUDIUM 19, panel: HS3; 2020/37/N/HS3/01400; P.I.: Dr. Maciej Wyżgoł
- Soba – the heart of the kingdom of Alwa. The spatial organization of medieval capital city on the Blue Nile; OPUS 15, panel: HS3; 2018/29/B/HS3/02533; P.I.: Dr. Mariusz Drzewiecki
- ArcheoCDN. Archeologiczne Centrum Doskonałości Naukowej/ Archaeological Centre of Scientific Excellence; Dialog grant: Assoc. Prof. Artur Obłuski
- (Reading) African Palimpsest. The dynamics of urban and rural communities of Numidian and Roman Mustis (AFRIPAL); OPUS 19, panel: HS3; 2020/37/B/HS3/00348; P.I.: Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Waliszewski (Faculty of Archaeology UW)
– scholarship holder affiliated with PCMA UW: mgr Julia Chyla