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    Clarissa Vierke

    Curriculum vitae

    since 2005 Research Assistant at the chair Afrikanistik I, Bayreuth University
    2005 M.A., Bayreuth University on the language of the “Utendi wa Haudaji”, a classical Swahili epic
    2003 Co-curator (together with Dr. Urbain N’dakon) of the DAAD-sponsored exhibition “Roots and Routes – Africans in Upper Franconia” (Roots and Routes - Afrikaner in Oberfranken)
    2000-2005

    Student Assistant at the chair of Afrikanistik I, Bayreuth University

    Member of the Fumo Liyongo Working Group (co-editor of Liyongo Songs. Poems Attributed to Fumo Liyongo (2004) ed. by Miehe et al. Köln: Köppe.)

    Editorial collaboration for Kala Shairi (2002) ed. by Miehe, G., K. Bromber, S. Khamis & R. Grosserhode. Köln: Köppe.

    Organisation of the annual Swahili Colloquium (since 2002).

    1999-2005 Studies in African Languages (Afrikanistik), Cultural Anthropology and Literatures in African Languages at Bayreuth University and Leiden University, Netherlands.

     

    Field research

    2004, 2005 Field work in Mombasa and Lamu
    2005 Archival work in the library of the University College Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
    2004 Research in the archives of SOAS, London

     

    Scholarships

    2002-2005 Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
    2002 DAAD scholarship for Hausa ( Azare, Nigeria)
    2001 DAAD scholarship for Swahili ( Zanzibar, Tanzania)

     

    Publications

    since 2005 Co-Editor of Swahili Forum
    2004 Dittemer, Clarissa, Ibriszimow, Dymitr & Karsten Brunk. Les pronoms en tchadique: vue d’ensemble. Systèmes de marques personnelles en Afrique (Collection Afrique et Langage 8) ed. by Dymitr Ibriszimow & Guillaume Segerer. Louvain- Paris: Peeters : pp. 55-96.
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