Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Career and scientific activities

Employment history

2023 - Lecturer in African linguistics, as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt University, Berlin
2021-2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (Endangered Languages Documentation Project). Project: “Documentation of Kam: Natural interaction, multimodality, and community-driven ethnographic documentation.”, see https://www.elararchive.org/dk0652/.
2020-2021 Research collaborator, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany (Grambank project).
2016-2020 PhD researcher, LLACAN, CNRS, Paris.
2016 Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany (Grambank project).
2015 Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (Grambank project).

Teaching and organization of seminars

2023 Introduction to the Languages of Africa, BA course for students of Asian and African Studies and students of Linguistics at Humboldt University.
2023 Language in West Africa, BA course for students of Asian and African Studies and students of Linguistics at Humboldt University.
2022 Guest lecturer at a training for ELDP grantees in Berlin (June 14th, 2022); I lectured about remote field work methods for language documentation.
2021-2022 Organizer of and presenter at a monthly seminar on fieldwork methods for PhD students at LLACAN and LACITO, Paris.  See https://lacito.cnrs.fr/en/scientific-activities/operations-and-seminars/phd-practical-seminar-lacito-llacan/.
2021 Development of courses on language documentation for native speaker collaborators in Nigeria in the framework of the Kam Documentation Project. Includes computer training, filming, metadata training, and transcription and annotation training.
2020 Organization of weekly online PhD meetings and presentations during the COVID-19 lockdown at LLACAN, CNRS, Paris.

Fieldwork experience

2021-present Remote field work on Kam, with the Kam community in Nigeria.
2018 2 weeks of survey work in central-eastern Nigeria on Chamba Donga, Como Karim, and Jirim.
2016-2018 8 months in central-eastern Nigeria and western Nigeria, working with the Kam community.

Academic service and editorial duties

2020-present Reviewer for two peer-reviewed journals, an edited volume, conference proceedings, and a grant round.
2016-present Member of the Grambank team of the Glottobank consortium at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena.
2021 Presenter at the Linguistics Circle, an online WhatsApp group moderated by Nigerian graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics. Together with Mirjam Möller, I gave a digital, written lecture introducing attendees to the ELDP grant procedure.
2019 Member of the department council of LLACAN, CNRS, Paris.
2018 Member of an external reviewing committee of the BA program in language and linguistics and of the MA program in linguistics of the University of Leuven, Leuven.