Mikael Assilkinga

2024
PhD in Art History (Technische Universität Berlin)
Title: Cameroonian power artefacts in German museums. Meanings and significances from the violent colonial exploitation to postcolonial history. Supervisors Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy and Prof. Dr. Albert Gouaffo.

2024
Fellow at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2021-2023
Member of the research project "Reversed History of Collections / Atlas of Absence. Cameroon's Cultural Heritage in Germany", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

2022
Fellow in the project "Sensitive Provenances", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

August 2021
Research Assistant at the Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies, Technische Universität Berlin

2021
Visiting doctoral student and non-editing lecturer at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

2019-2020
Teaching German as a foreign language at the Dschang University Center of Applied Foreign Languages

2019
Research stay at the Faculty of German Studies at BUW as part of the DAAD funding program International Promovieren in Wuppertal

2016-2018
Master's degree in Études Germaniques with a focus on literature, cultural studies and media studies at Dschang University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2013-2018
Librarian of the DAAD Lectorate and German Studies Library at the University of Dschang

2013-2016
Bachelor study Lettres Trilingues in German, French and English literature and cultural studies at the University of Dschang
Supervisors: Bénédicte Savoy and Albert Gouaffo