Anne Storch#
Membership Number: | 4725 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=19605&L=1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Full Professor for African Linguistics, Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
- 2000 - 2004 Senior Lecturer, Institute for African Linguistics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt upon Main, Germany
- 1995 - 1999 Research fellow at the German Research Society interdisciplinary joint research project 268 ‘Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne’, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt upon Main, Germany
- 1999 PhD, Institute for African Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt upon Main, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistic description
- Language creativity
- African linguistics
- Colonial linguistics
- Linguistic anthropology
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Fellow, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Germany
- 2017 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation