Curriculum vitae
(Abbreviated version -- you can download the super-duper-extra-long version here)
Education
Ph.D., 2006, Universität zu Köln
Magister Artium, 2001, Universität zu Köln
Employment
| since 2008 | Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Dene Language Studies at the Department of Indian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics of the First Nations University of Canada |
| 2006-2008 | UAF IPY Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 2006 | Denaʼina Linguist at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage |
| 2004-2005 | Research Assistant in the Project “Beaver Knowledge Systems” at the Linguistics Department of the Universität zu Köln |
| 2003-2004 | Research Assistant in the Tanacross Dictionary Project at the Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| 2001-2002 | Research Assistant in the project „Verbal Structures“, Sonderforschungsbereich 282 „Theory of the Lexicon“ at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
Grants and Scholarships
| 2010 | Endangered Languages Fund funding for project “Transcription, translation, and annotation of Upper Tanana Athabascan (ISO 639-3: tau) materials” |
| 2010 | Phillips Fund funding for project “Conversation in Upper Tanana Athabascan” |
| 2009 | Jacobs Fund funding for project “Tetlin Histories as told by Upper Tanana Athabascan Elder Cora David” |
| 2006-2008 | UAF IPY Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 2007 | Foundation for Endangered Languages funding for project “Upper Tanana grammar resource for teachers” |
| 2003-2004 | Graduiertenförderung durch Cusanuswerk (Ph.D. scholarship awarded by the Cusanuswerk) |