Curriculum Vitae

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Professional Title

  • 2020-            Professor: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville (Affiliated to Linguistics, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies and African American Studies).
  • 2012- 2020   Associate Professor: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville (Affiliated to Linguistics, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies and African American Studies).
  • 2005-2012    Assistant professor: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville (Affiliated to Linguistics, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies and African American Studies).
  • 2004-2005    Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Gainesville
  • 2003-2004    Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University (The Southern Ghana-Togo Mountains Languages Project)
  • 2000-2003    Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL) (The Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund)
  • 2003             Postdoctoral Fellow on Kwa, University of Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL) (The Spinoza Lexicon and Syntax Project)
  • 1998-1999 Lecturer in African Linguistics, Leiden University
  • 1995-1998 Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. The Netherlands.

Education

  • 1999             Ph.D., Leiden University, The Netherlands. Thesis: Inherent complement verbs revisited: towards an understanding of argument structure in Ewe.
  • 1994             Candidatus Philologiae, University of Trondheim, Norway, 1994. Thesis: The anaphoric phenomena of Ewe
  • 1988             B A Honours (Second Upper) in Linguistics and French, University of Ghana, Legon, 1988.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2018             University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment) Book Publication Award of $1100
  • 2018             NSEP grant of $324,975.51 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative –summer program on the campus of the University of Florida (Co-PI with Akintunde Akinyemi and Charles Bwenge)
  • 2017             NSEP grant of $406,169 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative –summer program on the campus of the University of Florida (Co-PI with Akintunde Akinyemi and Charles Bwenge)
  • 2017             NSF grant to host CoLang 2018 (the Institute for Collaborative Language Research) during summer 2018 at the University of Florida – $149,500 (Co-PI with Aaron Broadwell, Brent Henderson, and Eric Potsdam)
  • 2016             NSEP grant of $312,067.26 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative –summer program on the campus of the University of Florida (Co-PI with Akintunde Akinyemi and Charles Bwenge)
  • 2016:            NSF grant of $94,969 (NSF 1644439) to co-organize a School in Documentary Linguistics: Methods and Data management at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana (Co-Pi with Fiona McLaughlin).
  • 2015:            NSEP grant of $312,067.26 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative –summer program on the campus of the University of Florida
  • 2014:            NSEP grant of $310,653 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative –summer program on the campus of the University of Florida
  • 2013             Endangered Languages Documentation Grant for documentation of fishing                      practices among the Dwang (SG0193)
  • 2009             Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, University of Florida
  • 2011             Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the                      Center for African Studies. Grant to develop Online Akan Course
  • 2007-2009    NSF #0651800 Documentation of Nyangbo (NYB)2007             Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, University of Florida
  • 2003-2004    Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • 2000-2003    Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • 1995-1998    Doctoral stipend at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
  • 1993- 1994   Norwegian Science Foundation for Humanities Fellowship

Committee membership

  • Chair            CLAS Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee
  • Liaison          LLC Diversity and Inclusion
  • Member       LLC Graduate Studies Committee
  • Member       Advisory Board of the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere
  • Member       Advisory Board of African Languages Materials Archive
  • Member       Executive Committee, Association of Contemporary African Linguistics

Membership in Professional Organizations

  • West African Research Association (WARA)
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
  • Society for Pidgins and Creole Languages (SPCL)
  • Society for Caribbean Languages (SCL)
  • African Studies Association (ASA)
  • African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)
  • The West African Linguistics Society (WALS)