September 2018 - present
Alexander von Humboldt 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, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
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 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).
Alexander von Humboldt 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, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
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 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).