Artemis Saleh

Since May 2024, Artemis Saleh holds the position of the academic coordination of migration, (anti-)racism, and antisemitism research across Goethe-University, in order to bundle the different projects along the intersection of gender research at CGC. Artemis Saleh’s own work is based on anthropological, linguistic, media, and, last, but not least, queer theoretical approaches and methods, through the lens of a queer and migrant research position. In practice, Artemis Saleh conducts research together with Nigerian and Congolese queer and trans people, as well as in their media worlds and productions.

Artemis Saleh is currently doing a PhD at the Department of Ethnology and African Studies at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and is holding a position as junior researcher within the interdisciplinary Rhine-Main-Universities’ research project Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia (CEDITRAA) in the section Appropriation and Diffusion of Nigerian Media Production in Kinshasa (DR Congo) in the Context of Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Change since April 2021. Throughout the course of the project, Artemis Saleh has researched in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, including digital ethnography. In June 2023 Artemis Saleh accompanied and documented scientifically the historical and first major Pride events in Nigeria. Further topics of research that inform Artemis Saleh's work are security during research with specific emphasis on gender, positionality in research environments, intersectional methods, and soft power.

Prior, Artemis Saleh studied historical anthropology, African studies, Roman studies, and cognitive linguistics at Goethe-University, as well as one year at Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale with a focus on intercultural studies and ethnolinguistics. During the year at L’Orientale, Artemis Saleh researched with Senegalese and Gambian young refugees on culinary anthropological and biographical historical topics.