Dr. Maximilian Chami
Champ:
Emplacement:
"Dr Maximilian Felix Chami is a cultural heritage specialist based in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. He holds a PhD in Heritage Studies from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. Dr Chami previously served as a senior research officer and secretary of the restitution committee at the National Museum of Tanzania (2021–2022), and as a Culture and World Heritage Officer at the UNESCO National Commission of the United Republic of Tanzania (2015–2021). In 2022, he was appointed as a Sensitive Provenance Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen, and in 2023, he joined Open Restitution Africa (ORA) as a researcher, contributing to efforts aimed at improving access to information concerning the restitution of African material culture and human remains. Dr Chami held a research fellowship with the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, where he focused on colonial heritage and history. His research interests include cultural heritage management, colonial heritage, restitution, and the repatriation of human remains and ethnographic collections."
Community Awareness and Restitution of Isanzu Ancestors’ Human Remains from the University of Göttingen Collections to Mkalama District, Tanzania; Restitution and Repatriation of Ancestral, Human Remains from Colonial Contexts in Tanzania.