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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)