| since 10/2024 Academic staff member at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz |
| since 07/2024 Academic staff member Coordination & Curation in the BMBF-funded joint project “Counterhegemonic Voices in Music Archives” (JGU Mainz) |
| 04/2023; 09/2023 – 06/2024 Graduate assistant in the subproject B02 “Contouring and blurring of linguistic human differentiation” of the CRC 1482 “Human Differentiation” (JGU Mainz) |
| 04/2022 – 12/2022 Graduate assistant in the DFG project “Microvariation and Youth Language Practices in Africa” (JGU Mainz & University of Essex) |
| 04/20-04/2021 Academic staff member at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz |
| 03/2020 Master’s degree in African Studies, University of Cologne (Thesis: Constructions of authenticity in heritage tourism in northern Uganda) |
| 01/2018 – 03/2020 Graduate assistant (WHB) with Prof. Dr. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, African Studies Cologne |
| 02/2017 2-subject Bachelor of Arts in Languages and Cultures of the Islamic World and Languages and Cultures of Africa, University of Cologne |
| To Appear. Language and Hospitality. In Hilary Nesi & P. Melin (ed.). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics,3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier. |
| 2025. With Nico Nassenstein. Afterword: Hospitable Linguistics. Thoughts on current directions. In N. G. Faraclas, A. Storch & V. Velupillai (eds.). Hospitable Linguistics. Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters, pp. 316-324. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. |
| 2024: “They look hostile from afar”: Language ideologies and representations of ‘Northernness’ in Uganda. In A. Hollington, A. Mitchell & N. Nassenstein (eds.). Anthropological Linguistics. Perspectives from Africa, pp. 202-222. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
Jan Knipping
Room 00-665
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-39-22779
E-mail: j.knipping@uni-mainz.de
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