{"id":25,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:34","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/content-removed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Editor-in-Chief <em>Studies in African Linguistics &lt;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.flvc.org\/sal\">https:\/\/journals.flvc.org\/sal<\/a>&gt;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Professional Title<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2020-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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).<\/li>\n<li>2012-\u00a02020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Associate 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).<\/li>\n<li>2005-2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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).<\/li>\n<li>2004-2005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Gainesville<\/li>\n<li>2003-2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University (The Southern Ghana-Togo Mountains Languages Project)<\/li>\n<li>2000-2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL) (The Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund)<\/li>\n<li>2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoctoral Fellow on Kwa, University of Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL) (The Spinoza Lexicon and Syntax Project)<\/li>\n<li>1998-1999 Lecturer in African Linguistics, Leiden University<\/li>\n<li>1995-1998 Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. The Netherlands.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1999\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ph.D., Leiden University, The Netherlands. Thesis: <em>Inherent complement verbs revisited: towards an understanding of argument structure in Ewe<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1994\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Candidatus Philologiae, University of Trondheim, Norway, 1994. Thesis: <em>The anaphoric phenomena of Ewe<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1988\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B A Honours (Second Upper) in Linguistics and French, University of Ghana, Legon, 1988.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Awards &amp; Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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<\/li>\n<li>2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSEP grant of $324,975.51 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative \u2013summer program on the campus of the University of Florida (Co-PI with Akintunde Akinyemi and Charles Bwenge)<\/li>\n<li>2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSEP grant of $406,169 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative \u2013summer program on the campus of the University of Florida (Co-PI with Akintunde Akinyemi and Charles Bwenge)<\/li>\n<li>2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSF grant to host CoLang 2018 (the Institute for Collaborative Language Research) during summer 2018 at the University of Florida &#8211; $149,500 (Co-PI with Aaron Broadwell, Brent Henderson, and Eric Potsdam)<\/li>\n<li>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSEP grant of $312,067.26 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative \u2013summer program on the campus of the University of Florida (Co-PI with Akintunde Akinyemi and Charles Bwenge)<\/li>\n<li>2016:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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).<\/li>\n<li>2015: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSEP grant of $312,067.26 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative \u2013summer program on the campus of the University of Florida<\/li>\n<li>2014: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSEP grant of $310,653 to continue the domestic eight-week Intensive African Languages Initiative \u2013summer program on the campus of the University of Florida<\/li>\n<li>2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Endangered Languages Documentation Grant for documentation of fishing \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 practices among the Dwang (SG0193)<\/li>\n<li>2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, University of Florida<\/li>\n<li>2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Center for African Studies. Grant to develop Online Akan Course<\/li>\n<li>2007-2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NSF #0651800 Documentation of Nyangbo (NYB)2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, University of Florida<\/li>\n<li>2003-2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)<\/li>\n<li>2000-2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)<\/li>\n<li>1995-1998\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doctoral stipend at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen<\/li>\n<li>1993- 1994 \u00a0 Norwegian Science Foundation for Humanities Fellowship<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Committee membership<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CLAS Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee<\/li>\n<li>Liaison\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LLC Diversity and Inclusion<\/li>\n<li>Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LLC Graduate Studies Committee<\/li>\n<li>Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Advisory Board of the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere<\/li>\n<li>Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Advisory Board of African Languages Materials Archive<\/li>\n<li>Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Executive Committee, Association of Contemporary African Linguistics<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Membership in Professional Organizations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>West African Research Association (WARA)<\/li>\n<li>Linguistic Society of America (LSA)<\/li>\n<li>Society for Pidgins and Creole Languages (SPCL)<\/li>\n<li>Society for Caribbean Languages (SCL)<\/li>\n<li>African Studies Association (ASA)<\/li>\n<li>African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)<\/li>\n<li>The West African Linguistics Society (WALS)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/essegbey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}