Katharina Nowak currently is a PhD candidate at Universität Tübingen, Germany. Collaboration with Clara Bal. Projects: Mormah headdress; Decolonial knowledge production of ethnographic collections. Rethinking Museums. Katharina Nowak is a researcher specializing in social and cultural anthropology, currently based at the University of Bremen and the University of Tübingen. Her research primarily explores the circulation of ethnographic objects from the Pacific Islands, with a particular emphasis on their colonial history and the ways in which knowledge is produced and represented through these objects. Nowak investigates how Pacific Island artifacts, which were collected during the colonial era and brought to Germany, have been treated, classified, and displayed in museums. She focuses on the multi-layered practices involved in the movement of these objects, considering both historical and contemporary perspectives. Through her work, she seeks to reconstruct alternative forms of knowledge representation that acknowledge the perspectives of the Pacific Island communities from which these objects originate.