Dr Petra Weschenfelder is an archaeologist and anthropologist specialising in Northeast Africa and North America. She holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Sudanese Archaeology from Free University and Humboldt University Berlin. Her PhD at Humboldt University was on the interaction between nomads from the Eastern Desert and sedentary groups in the Nile valley from antiquity into recent times.

Petra has taught at Humboldt University and worked as field archaeologist in Sudan, Egypt, Qatar, Germany, Poland and the UK. She was part of the Humboldt University Nubian Expedition as cultural anthropologist and pottery specialist.

Petra has published widely on her research and is a member of the editoral board of Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies. Her current projects include medieval life in Northeast Africa, socioeconomic networks of mobility and translations of medieval Nubian documents.

Petra invites you to meet the fantastic people of Sudan and experience their colourful cultures.