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
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).
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
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).