Chimpanzee social ecology; primate and human behaviour in a comparative framework, including influences of diet, violence and culture; self-domestication and the evolution of reduced aggression; primate conservation
Regional ethnography and history of Yemen and South Arabia; comparative and historical methodologies in sociocultural anthropology; history of German-language anthropology; theories of nationalism and neo-nationalism
Archaeology and heritage of Africa and the Indian Ocean; archaeology, material culture, anthropological notions of value and identity, medieval empires and trade
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