Sheena Shah
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Curriculum Vitae

August 2021 – present
Project leader (with own position) in the ELDP-funded Major Documentation Project "A multimedia corpus of siPhuthi, an endangered language of Lesotho: Its linguistic-cultural legacy and present-day use", Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany

2018 – 2021
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany

2016 – 2018
Lecturer in Linguistics and Languages of Africa and Asia, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London, UK
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2013 – 2016       
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Director of the N/uu Language Project, Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi), University of Cape Town, South Africa


2007 – 2013
MSc and PhD in Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA

2003 – 2007 
BA and MA in Modern and Medieval Languages, Cambridge University, UK


I am a Research Associate at SOAS University of London, UK, and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. 

I was the Clayton B. Ofstad Writer-In-Residence at Truman State University, USA, in 2019 (2 months). I was a visiting scholar at the Centre for African Area Studies (CAAS) at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2015 (3 months) and at the Centre for Languages and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa (LLACAN, CNRS) in Paris, France, in 2010 (3 months). 

I worked as an intern at UNICEF (Jharkhand, India), UNESCO (Paris, France) and Save the Children (Washington DC, USA). I have also taught German, French and English at schools (Collège Bé-Atikpa, Lomé, Togo; Deutsche Höhere Privatschule, Windhoek, Namibia; Gymnasium Steigerwald-Landschulheim Wiesentheid, Bavaria, Germany), at universities (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), and at cultural institutes (Goethe Institute, Windhoek, Namibia).
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