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 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 worked as an English language instructor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and as a German language instructor at the 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 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 worked as an English language instructor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and as a German language instructor at the Goethe Institute (Windhoek, Namibia).